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- Mikaela Conley
- • May 17, 2021
BERLIN — In the seating snub heard round the world, the first woman president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was not offered a chair in April while meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and European Council President Charles…
- Categories: Governance, Women
- 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
- Ellen Chesler
- • September 4, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of women (and more than a few good men) in its 50-year history. Some 17,000 participants — among them, official government delegates, representatives of accredited nongovernmental organizations, international civil…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 28, 2017
New numbers from the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women show that progress of women in politics has stalled in parliaments and at executive levels of government or advanced marginally. The data form the basis of an elaborate Women in…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Take a Look
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 28, 2017
More than two decades have passed since a series of dynamic international conferences in the 1990s — on human rights, reproductive choices and broad empowerment for women — inspired and encouraged women around the world to raise their hopes…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 22, 2015
In Iraq and more than a dozen diverse other nations, from Malaysia to Eritrea to Venezuela, members of national legislatures face persecution or personal risks as the development machinery of the United Nations often places its hopes on national…
- Categories: Governance
- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • September 18, 2015
As a relentless remake of the Middle East and North Africa has been taking place, mass displacements of populations have also been occurring. And more chaos is ahead, says the United States Defense Intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart,…
- Categories: Middle East, Migration, Refugees, UN Agencies
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2011
They would seem, logically, to be natural partners: delegates in the United Nations General Assembly and members of parliaments in capitals around the world who have the power to monitor and follow up on the assembly’s decisions. But when…
- Categories: General Assembly, Women
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