UN Commission on the Status of Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 25, 2018
In a rare act of legislative sabotage, the Trump administration’s plan to starve international family planning of funds has been killed for now as committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate slipped hundreds of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 12, 2018
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
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 25, 2017
The annual women’s conference at the United Nations may have encountered severe weather on its second day, when a blizzard swept through the region and events had to be canceled at the UN, but the real storm originated with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Shiwani Neupane
- • May 8, 2014
As a lawyer, Sapana Pradhan Malla has pioneered women’s rights in Nepal, consistently advocating for equal inheritance, reproductive rights and women’s participation in politics. She has also been a politician herself, as a member Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, or parliament, from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 26, 2013
Throughout the media coverage in recent months of the tumultuous events in Egypt, little attention has been paid to Egyptian women, who may have the most to gain or to lose in any new political order that emerges in…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Women
- Yermi Brenner
- • April 9, 2013
As Pope Francis is getting used to life in the Holy See, a sexual-education program in neighboring Croatia offers hints of decline of the Roman Catholic Church’s political influence in the region. The introduction of sex-ed in Croatian public…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • March 20, 2013
With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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