Stephen Rapp
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 11, 2018
A decision by the United Nations Security Council to add sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence should have gone smoothly. The proposal, led by the Netherlands and Sweden, was meant to deter such violence in conflict zones and other…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, Security Council
- Ryan Villarreal
- • April 6, 2014
Last year marked major progress toward finding a peaceful resolution for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s achingly long conflict, rooted in decades of civil war, regional incursions, ethnic tensions and resource pilfering. Throughout the many years, women have…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 10, 2012
Thomas Lubanga, the 52-year-old Congolese militant convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers under age 15 and using them in hostilities, was sentenced today to 14…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 29, 2011
On Dec. 16, without fanfare, President Barack Obama issued an executive orderestablishing for the first time a global American policy to advance women’s roles in making and keeping peace. The absence or marginalization of women from international security affairs…
- Categories: ICC, US-UN Relations, Women
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