Wangari Maathai
- Ellen Chesler
- • October 13, 2018
From 1975 to 1995, the United Nations sponsored four international conferences on women that produced wildly optimistic blueprints for concrete gains. Some people dismiss these forums and the programs for action that they generated as lacking strategies to carry…
- Categories: BOOKS, Development, Gender Violence
- Joanne Myers
- • November 26, 2016
Since 1901, Nobel Prizes have been presented to the designated laureates at ceremonies held on Dec. 10 , the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. As stipulated in his will, the prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 22, 2016
As the Commission on the Status of Women convenes to tackle 21st-century feminist issues, Margaret Snyder — “Peg” to almost everyone who has met her — can take a long view of the history of women in the United Nations…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Women
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