Hillary Clinton
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2021
The most important day of the widely anticipated United Nations-backed Generation Equality Forum’s second session ended Wednesday night in Paris. But before the dozens of speeches were heard, a gulf emerged among people who at heart all want to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 5, 2020
The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; the United States sanctions the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; dissecting the failed ambitions of the US effort to force the UN mission in Lebanon to be…
- Categories: Middle East, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 25, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard, the United States Democratic representative from Hawaii, met with Donald Trump immediately after his election in November 2016. Gabbard became one of the first people to talk to him and his Republican camp at their base in…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 16, 2019
Hillary Clinton glided onto a stage in Manhattan with the luxury of now being a cool-eyed outsider who can sharply question foreign policy decisions being made by the Trump administration on such controversial places as China, Syria, Saudi Arabia…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 12, 2018
After years of civil war, Somalia is beginning to build democratic institutions with support from the West, even as horrific violence repeatedly strikes the capital, Mogadishu. Help from foreign countries and regional groups — such as the European Union,…
- Categories: Caribbean, Governance, Latin America, Women
- Torild Skard
- • August 15, 2017
OSLO — The last year has brought troubling events for feminists who are striving to see more women win top political leadership positions. Two female presidents, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Park Guen-hye of South Korea, had to leave…
- Categories: Governance, WORLDVIEWS
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 15, 2016
A newly released Wikileaks trove of emails sent to or sent by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, some as old as 2009, reveals a wide range of topics related to the United Nations over the years, from the…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 26, 2015
Are you wondering what happened at that “women’s conference at the United Nations,” as one (male) writer at The New York Times called it? Here is a recap of things to think about from the annual Commission on the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Yasmine Ergas
- • December 17, 2013
Gender is at the center of international agendas, not at their periphery. Today, plans in Sochi for the forthcoming Olympics — the emblem of international cooperation — are riven by disputes over Russia’s policies toward lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender persons. Peacemakers in…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • February 22, 2013
Melanne Verveer, most recently the United States ambassador at large for global women’s issues, is the new executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, which officially opened Feb. 21. Verveer had been appointed to the…
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