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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 22, 2022
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This week, the focus stays glued to Ukraine while a flicker of hope emerges in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, where children are getting new malaria vaccines. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. …
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 3, 2022
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- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women as Changemakers
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- Opinion by Yasmine Ergas
- • March 9, 2022
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Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the insufficiencies …
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 8, 2022
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Rebeca Grynspan, the first woman and first Latin American to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, has a lot of work to do. The organization, founded in 1964 as a standing committee, now has 195 member nations. …
- Categories: Women as Changemakers
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 3, 2022
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The last time the United Arab Emirates was elected to the Security Council, in 1986, the country was only 15 years old, and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the current UAE ambassador to the United Nations, was just 7. Since then she …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2022
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- Categories: Peace and Security, Women
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- Opinion by Sally Anne Corcoran
- • February 15, 2022
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As girls are being sold in the streets of Kabul, the Norwegian government flew in the Taliban and people from Afghan civil society into Oslo to talk to one another and with Western diplomats. While United Nations agencies have warned …
- Categories: Asia, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Mikaela Conley
- • February 14, 2022
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BERLIN — The number of countries declaring they are carrying out a feminist foreign policy is quickly increasing throughout the world, with Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Libya and now Germany joining Sweden’s pioneering concept, declaring that the countries’ diplomacies …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Women
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 28, 2022
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A coup in West Africa; a recap of Biden’s first year at the UN; a US-Russia showdown coming to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 21, 2022
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A volcano erupts in Tonga; Ukraine-Russia-US on edge; UN rights experts say Afghan women are being erased from public life. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 19, 2022
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It was the death in childbirth of a dear friend that spurred Adepeju Jaiyeoba, then a young lawyer in Lagos, Nigeria, to take action. It was 2011, and 978 out of every 100,000 Nigerian women — 40,000 a year — …
- Categories: Africa, Women as Changemakers
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 14, 2022
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Kazakh military dons UN “blue helmets”; US warns Russia at the UN of consequences from any military aggression in Ukraine; nationalism rises in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 12, 2022
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For decades, amid genocidal wars and gender violence that tore apart the lives and bodies of girls and women, Denis Mukwege, facing repeated threats to his own life, worked as a medical doctor in poor, broken communities in the eastern …
- Categories: International Justice, Uncategorized, Women
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 7, 2022
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Violence erupts in Kazakhstan; Sudan’s prime minister resigns; Norway takes the presidency of the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 5, 2022
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After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent her …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women
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