Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
In 2010, Maria Victoria (Mavic) Cabrera-Balleza founded an organization to help and advocate for the rights of women and girls globally, but it was her childhood experiences that first politicized her. Martial law was declared by the dictator President…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2020
This year was intended to be a celebratory time for women: the 25th anniversary of the momentous Beijing conference on women’s rights and how to advance them. It isn’t working out that way, however, as a global health crisis…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 21, 2018
KYIV, Ukraine — There is no escaping that Ukraine is at war — although it is not totally apparent who the Ukrainian military and volunteer vigilantes are fighting in the east: Russian “separatists” or Russians themselves? No one can…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 13, 2017
Despite fears that efforts by President Trump to bar visitors to the United States from a number of Muslim majority would limit attendance at this year’s annual United Nations conference on women in New York, UN officials have kept…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Terrorism, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 4, 2016
Two young women in London are taking on what they call the elitist nature of foreign policy and turning it toward a more feminist approach that could play out in many different pathways, said Marissa Conway, a founder of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
- Danielle Goldberg and Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • October 14, 2015
Fifteen years ago, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on women, peace and security, a landmark international law that demands women’s participation in decision-making on international peace and security. Though seldom recognized, the fundamental roots of…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 8, 2013
The newest United Nations Security Council resolution that continues to build a stronger framework to prevent and end sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations sends a strong signal that such offenses will be punished as war crimes under…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • June 7, 2013
A global women’s organization with wide experience in peace-building recently brought together scores of prominent women from six African nations to take well-defined steps for dealing with the root causes of the persistent sexual violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 7, 2013
Thousands of women worldwide flock to the Commission on the Status of Women’s conference at the United Nations every March, and this year is no exception, for good reason: the theme is eliminating and preventing all violence against women…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Mirva Lempiainen
- • November 28, 2012
A dozen years have passed since the United Nations Security Council made history by adopting a resolution that addressed women’s rights during conflicts and required their participation in preventing wars and in peace talks. Until Resolution 1325was approved,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 1, 2012
Overshadowed by daily reports from a horrific war in Syria, lingering violence in Libya and sporadic protests in Egypt and other regional nations, a struggle to salvage and advance the rights of women caught up in the revolutions of…
- Categories: Middle East, Women
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • July 30, 2012
Zainab Hawa Bangura, the minister of health and sanitation in Sierra Leone, a country that not long ago rose from a brutal civil war, will take over in September as the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in…
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