women’s rights
- Opinion by Margot Wallström
- • March 19, 2023
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Recently, I attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA. It is the first such hearing in the United States Senate since 1984, and this year marks the 100th anniversary since the ERA was…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
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This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Michelle Langrand
- • March 14, 2023
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Iran’s crackdown on women’s rights protests that erupted in September, and the Taliban recently banning women from working in nongovernmental organizations or from attending university have served as a reminder of how fast women’s rights are sliding back in…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 10, 2023
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Just because it was International Women’s Day on March 8, we focus on women all week! Why not? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is culled from UN press…
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
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Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 8, 2023
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Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari opposes the general perception that Islam represses women while ignoring various negative indices regarding women in his own country. “Islam was the first religion to give rights to women,” he declared in a…
- Categories: Ukraine-Russia War, Women
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- Opinion by Habiba Sarabi
- • March 7, 2023
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Today is International Women’s Day, a celebration of the achievements of women. It is also another day of Afghan women and girls living under Taliban rule, fearful of which freedoms will be stripped from them next. For decades, women’s…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 6, 2023
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Nordic countries may be gender progressive globally, but they quickly admit they have not figured out how to combat the wide-ranging, rampant instances of gender-based violence online. They roundly acknowledge that the problem stems from what happens in the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Opinion by Houry Geudelekian
- • March 5, 2023
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As I reflect on my final year chairing the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, which organizes the forum parallel to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, I wonder, How did I get here?…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 3, 2023
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This week, we focus on yet another migration disaster off Italy’s coast, resulting in approximately 180 deaths, including children, while attempting what UN and other officials call “irregular migration.” You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 2, 2023
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Mozambique, the southern African nation with scenic beaches and islands, will focus on issues around security and terrorism as it leads the United Nations Security Council in March. This is the first time Mozambique has been an elected member…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 28, 2023
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In a follow-up to our recent analysis on the status of gender parity among United Nations senior-level appointments, which found that almost half of them replaced a woman with a man, we look now at the senior leadership of…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 24, 2023
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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, we look at the humanitarian crises in Ukraine and another…
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- Chloé Cosson
- • February 12, 2023
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My grandmother raised seven children as a housewife. After she died in 2011, my mother inherited a bag full of cassette tapes. That’s when I remembered what I had heard before: my grandmother volunteered as a radio host on…
- Categories: UN Agencies, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 3, 2023
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This week, we focus on UN reform (no joke!); visits by the UN peacekeeping boss to Lebanon, Syria and Israel; and glimmers of hope for Iraq. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
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