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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 7, 2019
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More than 10,000 people will soon converge on the United Nations for its annual Commission on the Status of Women conference, providing a unique forum to gauge progress and to press for the rights of women and marginalized populations around …
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2018
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has nominated Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, to become the next UN high commissioner for human rights. The nomination has been sent to the General Assembly for approval. Bachelet, who is 66, was …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 31, 2018
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Michelle Bachelet ended her second term as president of Chile on March 11, 2018. Her first term, from 2006 to 2010, was marked by an ambitious social and economic agenda advancing women’s rights and better health care. Her cabinet of …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Latin America, SDGs, 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 that …
- 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 focuses …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Women
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- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 28, 2018
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There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN human-rights …
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 12, 2018
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After years of civil war, Somalia is beginning to build democratic institutions with support from the West, even as horrific violence repeatedly strikes the capital, Mogadishu. Help from foreign countries and regional groups — such as the European Union, Italy …
- Categories: Caribbean, Governance, Latin America, Women
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- Chris Gelardi
- • January 19, 2018
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the board of the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she finishes her government role on March 11. The announcement came after a Jan. 10 meeting at …
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • December 7, 2017
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GENEVA — Change is in the air again on First Avenue. Among numerous reform options being bandied about, none will be more consequential than those on financing the United Nations system. There are the sledgehammer arguments: drastic slashes in funding …
- Categories: UN Agencies
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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 this …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Ingvild Bode
- • August 28, 2017
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The exhibition “HERStory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations” was held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris this summer, after it made its debut in New York last year. Designed to showcase the contributions of female leaders …
- Categories: Secretary-General, 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, global …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Stephanie Asher
- • May 3, 2017
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Everyone has a fundamental right to live free of violence. Yet violence against women and girls is a health epidemic and a leading cause of injury and disability for women across the globe. In many regions, it kills as many …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 28, 2017
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New numbers from the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women show that progress of women in politics has stalled in parliaments and at executive levels of government or advanced marginally. The data form the basis of an elaborate Women in Politics …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Take a Look
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • March 27, 2017
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GENEVA — Whether or not he is a fan of Chinese characters, António Guterres will have to discover the double meaning of a crisis as opportunity. United Nations corridors on First Avenue in New York are buzzing with anxiety about …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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