Zainab Hawa Bangura
- Kacie Candela
- • April 30, 2017
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Two women have been named to highly visible posts at the United Nations: Pramila Patten of Mauritius is the new special envoy on sexual violence in conflict and begins in mid-June; and Virginia Gamba, an Argentine, is special envoy on children in …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, UN Special Envoys, Women
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- Opinion by Isabella Flisi
- • July 18, 2016
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BOGOTA, Colombia — As the peace treaty grows closer to fruition after the historic cease-fire agreement was reached recently between the Colombian government and the armed guerrillas known as FARC-EP, it is important to try to clarify the scale of …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 19, 2013
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With the issues of emergency contraception — the “morning after” pill — and abortion still topics of tremendous controversy among United Nations members, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recommended that both should be offered as part of an international response to …
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Uncategorized, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
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One of Fatou Bensouda‘s missions as the new chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is to make rape during conflicts a thing of the past. Until 20 years ago, she said in a speech at the United Nations recently, …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Amy Lieberman
- • December 14, 2012
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This year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has so far appointed 55 people to high-level positions. Twelve of the appointees, nearly 22 percent, are women, filling roles like the special representative for children and armed conflict and the executive director …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Women
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- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • July 30, 2012
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Zainab Hawa Bangura, the minister of health and sanitation in Sierra Leone, a country that not long ago rose from a brutal civil war, will take over in September as the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict. …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 18, 2012
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Adama Dieng, the registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been named the United Nations secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide. Dieng, a Senegalese, replaces Francis Deng of Sudan, who has been in the post since …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, GOINGS-ON
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