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The United States set a new precedent at the United Nations annual women’s rights meeting by requesting a recorded vote on the draft conclusions. The US action culminated after weekslong negotiations on this year’s theme, “Ensuring and Strengthening Access to …
The offices of Sweden’s mission to the United Nations in New York City and in Geneva are keeping mum as questions arise about the involvement of Lisa Svensson, a top Swedish diplomat, with the disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Marie …
South Africa cannot claim to have invented racism, but as we know, apartheid went far beyond racism. It was institutionalized and systemic, a form of governance based on race-based hate and the perpetuation of race-based discrimination. Faced with a crime …
This Week @UN: Fixing e-waste economies; US cuts counterextremism funding; UN Security Council’s doubts about Trump’s Board of Peace. Plus: Gaza/West Bank miseries; Jesse Jackson @UN; Board of Peace debut; defending Francesca Albanese; more Epstein “atrocities”; AI dignity; 1 country/4 …
This Week @UN: Fighting for postwar justice; European backlash on human rights; the case against military growth; where are the SecGen candidates? Plus: Rage in Iran; Myanmar clashes; Guterres’s final priorities; Trumpland v Greenland; US Board of Peace; UK hoopla. …
In early December, the international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in The Hague presented its verdict on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. Two days later, on Dec. 13, the French Senate convened a high-level colloquium titled “No Peace Without …
Welcome back to our weekly summary after a pause in August. We’ve made changes to our headline and produced a more streamlined format for faster reading, though this issue is on the longish side. Let us know what you think. …
When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their earliest, most devastating acts was to remove all women judges from their positions. These courageous women, educated in their own country and possessing many years of experience …
The practice of female genital mutilation is mostly associated with dozens of countries in Africa and the Mideast, but the reality is that millions of women and girls in some 94 countries are victimized by it every year. This includes …
This Week @UN: Gambians’ journey to justice; postwar Gaza with Gazans; France helms the UN Security Council amid global turmoil. Plus: Gaza killing fields; cholera in Haiti; Syria surviving; slashing UNOCHA workforce. Follow us on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, …
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is asking the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Rwandan government for its noncompliance with the Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire in Congo. The country’s envoy to the UN, Zénon Mukongo …
This Week @UN: A woman UN leader?; Europe rearms; Afghan women’s anger; US-Canada tariff tiff. Plus: US aid hits to UN; Haiti endures; UN goes lean; more measles; coffee jitters; US loyalty questions; CSW. Follow us on Blue Sky, Twitter …
As the United Nations member states gather in New York City to mark the 69th session of the annual conference on women’s rights, the condition of women and girls remains stark under the Taliban’s gender apartheid rule in Afghanistan. Three …
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