UN Women
- Opinion by Marzia Babakarkhail
- • June 13, 2023
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Thankfully, many women judges have escaped Afghanistan with the help of the International Association of Women Judges and other organizations and governments. Sixty-eight women judges still desperately need sanctuary. I am deeply concerned for the safety of women who, like …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2023
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This week, the UN’s humanitarian arm jumped in to help mitigate the disaster at Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam, while back in New York City, the UN secretary-general tweeted on June 7, as daylight darkened ominously: “At our @UN Headquarters in New …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 19, 2023
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Taina Bien-Aimé started speaking up for women’s rights when she was still a teenager. A daughter of two Haitians who had met and settled in New York City, she was only about 15, some childhood friends recently reminded her, when …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women as Changemakers
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 10, 2023
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Just because it was International Women’s Day on March 8, we focus on women all week! Why not? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is culled from UN press briefings, …
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
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Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering concept. …
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 3, 2023
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This week, we focus on yet another migration disaster off Italy’s coast, resulting in approximately 180 deaths, including children, while attempting what UN and other officials call “irregular migration.” You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 20, 2023
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LAGOS — A women-focused organization is seeking to increase funding for Nigerian women who want to participate in politics. In a country with only 6.4 percent of women taking active roles in public office, the organization understands the challenges are …
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 20, 2023
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This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 18, 2022
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It’s a sad one this week as two girls were beheaded in a camp in Syria. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting …
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- Opinion by Susana Malcorra
- • November 7, 2022
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- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS
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- Nyasha Bhobo
- • October 17, 2022
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- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 15, 2022
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When she was only 10 years old, Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame realized that she could no longer read her classroom’s blackboard at her school in eastern Ghana. She eventually learned that she had retinal dystrophy, an irreversible degenerative condition that would …
- Categories: Disabilities, Women as Changemakers
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 15, 2022
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- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Emma Beilouny
- • April 25, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 18, 2022
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This week, we place the lens on the United Nations itself as the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine surge into the fourth week of war. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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