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- Mantoe Phakathi
- • November 13, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya — More than 6,000 delegates in the population development sector are gathering in the Kenyan capital here this week to renew the promise made to girls and women 25 years ago in Cairo. In firm voices, young…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 13, 2015
By almost every measure, this year will be monumental for the United Nations. The organization will be 70 years old and that will inspire, as anniversaries always do, a lot of stocktaking, analysis and, of course, criticism. Past stumbles…
- Categories: Governance, LGBT, SDGs, Women
- Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin
- • September 16, 2014
Despite their intimate relationship, climate change and world population are still not talking to each other. The lack of meaningful dialogue has persisted for decades, with both seeming to deliberately ignore the significance, relevance and impact of the other….
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Denis Fitzgerald
- • March 13, 2014
The future global development agenda must include a standalone goal for gender equality, and United Nations member states, who will have the final say on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, should not use culture or ideology as…
- Categories: Development, Women
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • November 18, 2013
Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the third international conference on family planning, Anne C. Richard, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, urged strong support for United Nations efforts to promote the rights…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 1, 2013
In the global annals of women’s rights defenders over the last half century, Nafis Sadik’s name will always rank high, though little may be known about her among the broad American public, focused as it usually is on Western…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2013
After years in the shadows, and under attack from left and right, a campaign to put action into the demand that every woman should have the right to contraception is finally gaining momentum — or regaining the central role…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 14, 2012
In an unusual joint call for action, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar, are asking United Nations members to convene a world conference on women in 2015, the 20th anniversary…
- Categories: General Assembly, Women
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