UN Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
- Florencia Giordano
- • March 29, 2015
How much does the economic environment of a country generate inequalities for women? A new report on wage gaps says that disparities are only partly explained by differences in experience, education and/or occupation, proving there is much more work…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Migration, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 10, 2015
A recent cease-fire seems to be holding in eastern Ukraine, promising relative relief in the region from the incessant, percussive beat of heavy artillery from Howitzers, tanks and rocket launchers with a backbeat provided by Kalashnikov AK-74s. Fighting in…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 8, 2015
Two decades after the world’s largest gathering of women adopted an ambitious plan to improve if not legalize gender equality, women are marginally better off in many walks of life, depending on the country and urban versus rural regions….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2014
Amid the horrors that women and girls have suffered around the world in 2014 — including being forced to flee their homes by the hundreds of thousands in Syria, the sexual enslavement of Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and…
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs, Women
- Yermi Brenner
- • August 31, 2014
The extremist Sunni militant group called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which recently declared a caliphate in parts of the Middle East, now controls an area of 13,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria. Testimonies coming out about…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 16, 2014
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has appointed at least a dozen new people to high-level positions — including five women — primarily in Africa in the last few months, while the organization also loses some executives. Three new…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2014
An unusual survey of 3,400 people worldwide who know the United Nations has found strong support for some basic rethinking over the next decade on the organization’s work in development. Among the recommendations, over two-thirds of respondents suggested adding…
- Categories: Development
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 24, 2014
What happened at the annual United Nations women’s conference this year? Over 10 days of both mercifully brief and far-too-long speeches by policy people, government ministers, UN staff members and a wide array of other experts, the 58th session of…
- Categories: Women
- Maria Butler
- • February 10, 2014
This is a difficult time for peace advocates. How can we talk about women participating at the peace table when talk has not translated into action? How can we discuss the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda,…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2014
When the latest list of 20 top donors to UN Women appeared last year, there was only one country outside the richer nations of the world among them: Mexico. The Mexican commitment to the women’s agency reflects the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Latin America, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero and Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 22, 2014
The United Nations-led peace talks in Switzerland to begin the laborious discussions to end the war in Syria have officially started, but Syrian women activists who have been demanding to sit at the crucial peace-talks table on Jan. 24…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
- Ryan Villarreal
- • January 8, 2014
For the past three decades, Costa Rica has carried out progressive steps to reduce violence against women, a major inhibitor of human and economic development in the country and throughout Latin America. While the issue has garnered more attention…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Latin America, UN Agencies, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 26, 2013
The campaign to ensure women’s equal participation at the peace talks on Syria in January has become more urgent, as certain parties recognize that women are vital in rebuilding and reconciling Syrian society. Yet only a few weeks before…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, Women
- Yasmine Ergas
- • December 17, 2013
Gender is at the center of international agendas, not at their periphery. Today, plans in Sochi for the forthcoming Olympics — the emblem of international cooperation — are riven by disputes over Russia’s policies toward lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender persons. Peacemakers in…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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