Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 6, 2021
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Sima Sami Bahous, until recently Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations since 2016, has been chosen as the next executive director of UN Women. Her appointment may be announced as soon as Tuesday, Sept. 7, according to numerous people…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, Women
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- Opinion by Anne Marie Goetz  and Joanne Sandler
- • July 8, 2021
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UN Women is looking for a new executive director. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former vice president of South Africa, is stepping down after eight years at the helm. The appointment comes as the Generation Equality Forum in Paris just ended, with…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2021
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Facing a world unsettled and even shocked by what has happened to the United States in recent years and not sure what to expect of Americans now, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in clear, reassuring terms to a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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To keep tabs on the lives and rights of people across the world, the United Nations Human Rights Council has the help of 44 independent monitors supposedly chosen for their expertise on a range of themes, from harsh government…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 20, 2020
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As the countdown to this year’s main events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women has begun, UN Women has announced six themes to anchor the two Generation Equality forums to be held in May and in…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2019
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The surprising controversy over women in the sex trade — tangled in issues of legality, terminology and competing feminist visions — has produced an unequivocal statement from the executive director of UN Women that the agency is not taking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
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A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
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- Ladan Osman
- • May 19, 2018
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In scriptures, poetry, constitutions and leaders’ pledges to protect all members of the state, women are often listed with children or others rendered “vulnerable” by circumstance. The woman citizen is imagined as less adult. Is it possible that vocabularies…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 12, 2018
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As women across the world battle systemic harassment and worse abuses for merely being female, the United Nations has opened its annual gathering of women in one of its biggest conferences of the year. This time, the 12-day meeting…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 22, 2017
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As its people of the year, Time magazine recently named the Silence Breakers — people who have spoken against sexual harassment and launched the hashtag #MeToo into an international phenomenon with more than seven million hits on social media….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, Women
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- Kacie Candela
- • November 24, 2017
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November 25 marks the annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which encompasses 16 days of activism through Dec. 10, with this year’s theme being “leave no one behind.” The annual commemoration couldn’t be better timed…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 24, 2017
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The first round in the battle to write a federal budget, working off the Trump administration’s ruthless proposals announced in May, has ended in the House of Representatives appropriations committee. As feared by advocates for women, the poor, refugees,…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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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
- • October 20, 2016
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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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 17, 2016
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“Because it’s 2015,” Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada and self-proclaimed feminist, said simply, using the vernacular of his generation to reinforce his position on gender equality as he spoke at the United Nations recently during an “armchair…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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