Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 5, 2022
Naturally enough, Gabon is focusing on Africa as the country leads the United Nations Security Council this month. Gabon’s UN ambassador, Michel Xavier Biang, detailed his country’s plans for the rotating presidency, elaborating on a climate change agenda as…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 15, 2022
Despite 100 countries enacting national plans to carry out the global women, peace and security agenda, women remain largely absent from conflict mediation and other peacemaking endeavors across the world. The agenda, cemented in a Security Council resolution approved…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 4, 2021
In October, the United Nations Security Council diplomats are packing up their suitcases and hopping on an overseas flight to the Sahel region of West Africa to assess the serious challenges that this semiarid strip is countering. It is…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
- Sophie Huvé  and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has been integrating part of the women, peace and security agenda into its sanctions regimes — albeit inconsistently and with mixed results. So far, this practice has mostly focused on protecting women…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
Human-rights advocates around the world are assessing how much lasting damage could still be done to universal human rights after the four-year assault from the Trump administration. Although the Trump years ended with the swearing-in of President Joe Biden…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
- • March 25, 2020
Afghan women’s inclusion in the current peace negotiations with the Taliban and the United States has become an international cause célèbre. But calls for participation of Afghan women without methodical, sustained and substantive engagement in a peace settlement has the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Joanne Myers
- • December 11, 2019
On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this…
- Categories: US-UN Relations, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 9, 2019
To try to show European unity before a key parliamentary election for the European Union in May, France and Germany teamed up for the United Nations Security Council presidencies in March and April, respectively. After the first stint by…
- Categories: Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 4, 2019
As a united front in the fight to preserve the European Union, France and Germany are about to gain a global audience. During March and April, their top United Nations ambassadors, François Delattre and Christoph Heusgen, will take turns —…
- Categories: Climate Change, Gender Violence, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 3, 2019
Although the Dominican Republic has been a member of the United Nations since 1945, the country is making its debut on the Security Council this month — starting big, as the president in the rotating seat. It is the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 5, 2018
Welcome to our new column, Security Council Presidency, providing insight into the United Nations Security Council member sitting in the rotating seat of the president every month, starting in July with Sweden and its ambassador, Olof Skoog. The column…
- Categories: Climate Change, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • March 13, 2018
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the resulting agenda on women, peace and security has called for more inclusive peace processes, stressing that women’s specific needs and experiences should be taken into account during and after peace negotiations….
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 28, 2017
More than two decades have passed since a series of dynamic international conferences in the 1990s — on human rights, reproductive choices and broad empowerment for women — inspired and encouraged women around the world to raise their hopes…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Women
- Danielle Goldberg and Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • October 14, 2015
Fifteen years ago, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on women, peace and security, a landmark international law that demands women’s participation in decision-making on international peace and security. Though seldom recognized, the fundamental roots of…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • November 26, 2013
Despite the unprecedented developments in international law addressing women, peace and security issues, progress has been remarkably slow and unpredictable in changing the perception of women as victims of armed conflict into peace-builders and decision-makers. The transformational nature of…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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