Stephen Rapp

UN Sanctions for Sexual Violence in Libya Approved, but Russia Resisted

• 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 hot spots. Weeks earlier, diplomats turned out in hordes to mark the 18th anniversary of a …

Gender Violence, Libya, Security Council

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Russ Feingold on Congo: First, End the Conflict

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 borne the brunt of the fighting, caught in the crossfire between rival militias and governments …

Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights

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UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2012

Thomas Lubanga, Congolese Warlord, Sentenced to 14 Years

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 years’ imprisonment. The children were forced to fight a conflict in northeastern Congo from Sept. …

Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC

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Quietly, New US Policies Align With the UN

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 has been a cause of much United Nations attention for more than a decade, right …