UN Women’s Conference 2014

Putting Women and Girls at the Center of the Future Development Goals

• 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 the Commission on the Status of Women ended on a hush. It was as if …

Women

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Solving Bangladesh’s ‘Living Wages’ Problem Demands Global Support

Shiwani Neupane

• March 18, 2014

The dialogue on living wages has come a long way since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,000 people in 2013, but there will be no solution to the living wage problem until all parties involved work together, a diverse group of panelists agreed at a panel on the topic, …

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Women, Girls and Their Sexuality in the Next MDGs

Denis Fitzgerald

• March 13, 2014

The future global development agenda must include a standalone goal for gender equality, and United Nations member states, who will have the final say on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, should not use culture or ideology as an excuse for failing to include sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls among …

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Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies

Rebecca Brown

• March 9, 2014

Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with its National Assembly amending the country’s laws to affirm a woman’s right to an abortion through the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and criminalize attempts to obstruct this right. What is …