Islamic women
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
KURDISTAN, Iraq — For many women in Kurdistan, life is anything but honorable. We have come to this autonomous region in northern Iraq as social anthropologists to research violence against women — particularly, honor killings — by interviewing local…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Maria Butler
- • February 10, 2014
This is a difficult time for peace advocates. How can we talk about women participating at the peace table when talk has not translated into action? How can we discuss the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda,…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Joseph Chamie
- • February 2, 2014
A large amount of news, analysis and political rhetoric is disseminated daily about the current American-initiated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. However, comparatively little attention — and, hence, insufficient understanding — is given to a  critical aspect of the decades-old…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 28, 2014
Now that Gao, a remote but critical outpost in northern Mali, has become a hub of military personnel — Mali Army, French troops and UN peacekeepers — to fend off terrorist incursions, it is also a simmering spot for…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero  and Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 22, 2014
The United Nations-led peace talks in Switzerland to begin the laborious discussions to end the war in Syria have officially started, but Syrian women activists who have been demanding to sit at the crucial peace-talks table on Jan. 24…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 26, 2013
The campaign to ensure women’s equal participation at the peace talks on Syria in January has become more urgent, as certain parties recognize that women are vital in rebuilding and reconciling Syrian society. Yet only a few weeks before…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 5, 2013
Recognizing that women in the Middle East and North Africa must play an active role in their countries’ political processes, especially amid the regional backdrop of upheavals and conflicts, the Netherlands government is providing money for a new program,…
- Categories: Middle East, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 26, 2013
Throughout the media coverage in recent months of the tumultuous events in Egypt, little attention has been paid to Egyptian women, who may have the most to gain or to lose in any new political order that emerges in…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, 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
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • March 20, 2013
With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 22, 2013
The New Year began with a big step for Saudi women when King Abdullah appointed 30 of them to the kingdom’s traditionally all-male Shura Council, an advisory body that serves as a pale imitation of a legislature in the…
- Categories: Middle East, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 1, 2012
Overshadowed by daily reports from a horrific war in Syria, lingering violence in Libya and sporadic protests in Egypt and other regional nations, a struggle to salvage and advance the rights of women caught up in the revolutions of…
- Categories: Middle East, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 17, 2012
The saddest stories told by vulnerable women in villages or slum shacks across the developing world most often involve violence or subjugation that they must bear because they don’t know how, or don’t have the means, to escape a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Women
- Jenny Marc
- • April 19, 2012
Sanjar Qiam can readily recite examples of domestic abuse in his country, Afghanistan. “Just last week we received a call from neighbors,” Qiam, the director of a Kabul-based communications business, Gandeeray, recalled in a phone interview from his home…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, 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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