International Women’s Day

The Covid-19 Anniversary; Seeking a Woman Secretary-General; a Sad Women’s Day

Ivana Ramirez
• March 13, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…

Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations

OPINIONS

The UN-Led Peace Process for Syria Has Failed. Women Must Be Part of the Next One.

Opinion by Mouna Ghanem
• March 8, 2021

COPENHAGEN — In her book, “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir argued that one is not born but rather becomes a woman. De Beauvoir emphasized that destiny is not a cosmic force but a human choice, a result of…

Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

TOPIC: WOMEN

Thank You, UN, for Protecting the Rights of Women

Bertrand Ramcharan
• February 28, 2018

There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN…

Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women

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TOPIC: WOMEN

US Immigration Ban Stirs Controversy at the Annual UN Women’s Forum

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

Prostitution: A Word That UN Women Does Not Want to Hear

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

At the UN’s Yearly Meeting on Women, Scrutinizing the Slow, Patchy Gains on Equality

Dulcie Leimbach
• March 8, 2015

Two decades after the world’s largest gathering of women adopted an ambitious plan to improve if not legalize gender equality, women are marginally better off in many walks of life, depending on the country and urban versus rural regions….