violence against women

• May 13, 2022

This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, …

General Assembly, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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Trending UN News: Week Ending May 6

Damilola Banjo

• May 6, 2022

This week, we report on the UN secretary-general’s Sahel region trip as he took the message of global peace and security to Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, and the momentous evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …

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Trending UN News: Week Ending April 22

Damilola Banjo

• April 22, 2022

This week, the focus stays glued to Ukraine while a flicker of hope emerges in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, where children are getting new malaria vaccines. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This …

Climate Change, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

Britain Vows to Expose Kremlin’s Abuse of the UN Security Council

Damilola Banjo

• April 12, 2022

As most of the world’s superpowers continue to impose sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Britain says it will double-down on its effort to call out Russia by ensuring it does not continue to misuse its position as a veto-wielding member of the United Nations Security Council. “And we’re …

Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency

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Will Ukraine Bury Feminist Foreign Policies or Will It Reveal Their Power?

Yasmine Ergas

• March 9, 2022

Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the insufficiencies of allies’ support. Who doesn’t perceive that their authority is enhanced because their decision …

Gender Violence, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS

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Meanwhile in Afghanistan, Women Are Suffering Needlessly This Winter

Sally Anne Corcoran

• February 15, 2022

As girls are being sold in the streets of Kabul, the Norwegian government flew in the Taliban and people from Afghan civil society into Oslo to talk to one another and with Western diplomats. While United Nations agencies have warned repeatedly that 22 million Afghans face acute hunger, the Taliban regime flirts with legitimacy …

Asia, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Feminist Foreign Policies Increase in Number. Do They Matter?

Mikaela Conley

• February 14, 2022

BERLIN — The number of countries declaring they are carrying out a feminist foreign policy is quickly increasing throughout the world, with Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Libya and now Germany joining Sweden’s pioneering concept, declaring that the countries’ diplomacies will place girls and women at the center of their work. In a speech …

Geopolitics, Women

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Jan. 21

Anna Bianca Roach

• January 21, 2022

A volcano erupts in Tonga; Ukraine-Russia-US on edge; UN rights experts say Afghan women are being erased from public life. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, hear from a former UN …

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WOMEN AS CHANGEMAKERS

Nigeria’s Champion of Maternal and Child Health

Damilola Banjo

• January 19, 2022

It was the death in childbirth of a dear friend that spurred Adepeju Jaiyeoba, then a young lawyer in Lagos, Nigeria, to take action. It was 2011, and 978 out of every 100,000 Nigerian women — 40,000 a year — were dying from complications during childbirth. Recalling her friend recently, Jaiyeoba said: “She was …

Africa, Women as Changemakers

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More Female Judges Are Named to Top Courts, Yet Brutality Against Women Persists

Barbara Crossette

• January 12, 2022

For decades, amid genocidal wars and gender violence that tore apart the lives and bodies of girls and women, Denis Mukwege, facing repeated threats to his own life, worked as a medical doctor in poor, broken communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2018, that work was recognized universally by a …

International Justice, Uncategorized, Women

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Jan. 7

Anna Bianca Roach

• January 7, 2022

Violence erupts in Kazakhstan; Sudan’s prime minister resigns; Norway takes the presidency of the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, catch up on PassBlue’s stories over the holidays, starting …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Sexism and Violence Against Women MPs in Africa Is Pervasive, a New Report Reveals

Dawn Clancy

• January 5, 2022

After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent her many warnings, demanding that she withdraw her candidacy for a parliamentary seat in Kenya’s …

Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

In January, Norway Leads the Security Council Under a New Government

Stéphanie Fillion

• January 4, 2022

Norway holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council in the country’s 2021-2022 term only once — in January — so it is aiming to make the best of this moment. “We have to make sure to put our mark this month and to make sure that our priorities will be reflected,” Mona Juul, …

Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency

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For the Women and Girls Living in Uganda’s Streets, It’s Survival of the Fittest

Ali Kabugo

• December 29, 2021

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has one of the largest population of children in the world. Out of 37 million people in our country, 56 percent are under 18 years old and slightly more than half of those are under age 15. We have a high level of poverty and HIV/AIDS in Uganda as well, …

Africa, WORLDVIEWS

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The UN Under Secretary-General Who Also Sits on the Board of Shell

Stéphanie Fillion

• December 21, 2021

Jane Holl Lute is in high demand. In 2020, on top of her two high-level United Nations jobs, the American diplomat has juggled other numerous executive roles on corporate and/or nonprofit boards, earning more than $900,000, according to public records. Lute was the UN envoy for Cyprus until she resigned in August, and she …