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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 24, 2021
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Unless a strong candidate backed by an influential member state comes forward soon, it looks unlikely that Secretary-General António Guterres will be denied a second term and that a woman could be elected to succeed him, starting in 2022. Any …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 11, 2017
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The annual meeting of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, held in New York every March, may be in trouble because of uncertainty and fear about the Trump administration’s attempt to ban immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. …
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- Amy Lieberman
- • March 25, 2013
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 The $100- to $120-billion international arms trade in 2012 intensified the internal conflicts in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo but also brought guns into homes in these countries, where men turned them against women. That was …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
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