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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 21, 2023
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This week, the United Nations restated it commitment to remain in Afghanistan despite reports to the contrary. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings,…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 19, 2023
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Taina Bien-Aimé started speaking up for women’s rights when she was still a teenager. A daughter of two Haitians who had met and settled in New York City, she was only about 15, some childhood friends recently reminded her,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women as Changemakers
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 13, 2023
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First, happy new year to all our readers! This is the first summary for 2023, and we are excited to bring you all the bits and intrigues from inside the United Nations. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
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- Kayla Stewart
- • February 12, 2020
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KETE KRACHI, Ghana — To smoke a fish here, you need to first remove its skull. Then you insert a sharp knife into its stomach, slowly cutting a clean line across its belly to avoid flooding your hand with…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2019
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The surprising controversy over women in the sex trade — tangled in issues of legality, terminology and competing feminist visions — has produced an unequivocal statement from the executive director of UN Women that the agency is not taking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • April 11, 2016
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Experts on human trafficking and slavery are calling for strong involvement by the private sector in tackling the enormous challenge of these abuses, particularly with girls and women. At the same time, the experts, who spoke at a recent…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 7, 2014
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PHNOM PENH — Dueling depictions of Somaly Mam, the Cambodian activist who has campaigned against sex trafficking in her country and elsewhere, have splashed across large media outlets in the last six months. Mam, who contends she was a…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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