Mavic Cabrera-Balleza

UN Women’s Forum in Mexico City Is Under Review

March 29, 2020

Another highlight of the year marking the 25th anniversary of a breakthrough international conference in Beijing on women’s rights has fallen victim to the global march of the new coronavirus, Covid-19. The event is the first of two global meetings of the Generation Equality Forum, which is meant to give civil society organizations a …

Covid-19, Health and Population, Latin America

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Yikes Again! UN Staffers Protest Wonder Woman’s Role at the UN

October 20, 2016

by Dulcie Leimbach

Wonder Woman is not so wonderful in the eyes of hundreds of United Nations staff members around the world. Earlier this week, a petition began circulating among personnel to ask their boss, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to rescind the choice of the cartoon character, whose main uniform is a bustier and high heels, as an …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Philippines Defies Church, Giving Contraception to the Poor

January 2, 2013

by Barbara Crossette

It took a committed president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, and a Filipino Congress concerned about rising maternal mortality and continuing population growth amid widespread poverty, to overcome strong opposition from the Roman Catholic church and make contraception freely accessible to millions of poor women beginning in 2013. The adoption in mid-December of …

Asia, Health and Population, Women

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UN Women's Conference 2014

A Place for Women at the Table

November 28, 2012

by Mirva Lempiainen

A dozen years have passed since the United Nations Security Council made history by adopting a resolution that addressed women’s rights during conflicts and required their participation in preventing wars and in peace talks. Until Resolution 1325was approved, post-conflict reconstruction had been mostly the realm of those possessing the Y chromosome in the …

Peace and Security, Security Council, Women

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Mavic Cabrera-Balleza

UN Women’s Forum in Mexico City Is Under Review

Yikes Again! UN Staffers Protest Wonder Woman’s Role at the UN

Philippines Defies Church, Giving Contraception to the Poor

A Place for Women at the Table

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