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Nadia Murad

An American Feminist, Honored by France, Carries On a Tireless Global Fight for Women’s Rights

Barbara Crossette
• October 6, 2021

Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…

Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers

TOPIC: WOMEN

At the UN, the US Darkens Women’s Right to Abortion

Dulcie Leimbach
• April 23, 2019

After four weeks of tumultuous negotiations over a resolution that reinforced decades of international efforts to combat sexual violence in conflict and to introduce more legal reassurances and services for victims, the 15-member United Nations Security Council approved a…

Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

OPINIONS

Six Steps to End Sexual Violence in War

Opinion by Melanne Verveer and Zainab Bangura
• October 11, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad, a human-rights activist from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, and to Denis Mukwege, a Congolese physician, for their fight against sexual violence as a weapon of war….