Lakshmi Puri
- Opinion by Stephanie Asher
- • May 3, 2017
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Everyone has a fundamental right to live free of violence. Yet violence against women and girls is a health epidemic and a leading cause of injury and disability for women across the globe. In many regions, it kills as…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 25, 2017
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The annual women’s conference at the United Nations may have encountered severe weather on its second day, when a blizzard swept through the region and events had to be canceled at the UN, but the real storm originated with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 13, 2017
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 29, 2013
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After several months of public speculation at the United Nations, two candidates are now in tight contention for the executive director post of UN Women, the main agency tasked with promoting the treatment and rights of women worldwide since…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 12, 2013
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Hardeep Singh Puri, 60, the Indian ambassador to the United Nations, has announced his retirement, which will take effect at the end of February. Ashoke Mukherji, The Times of India reported, is likely to be Puri’s replacement at the…
- Categories: Asia, GOINGS-ON, Security Council
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