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The push to consolidate the two United Nations’ agencies dedicated to women’s rights and reproductive health has produced a formal path for their merger. An initial assessment done under the UN80 Initiative, the systemwide reform plan to make the world …
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 …
In Gaza, Hana al-Tarazi has spent years as a lawyer working on cases that turn on the details of both civil law and Islamic jurisprudence in courtrooms where women still fight to be heard. These include personal-status disputes that can …
Countries are treading carefully about the possible merger of two major United Nations agencies focusing solely on women’s rights and reproductive health as experts warn about the vast perceived risks of diluting the two entities’ distinct roles into one. Diplomats …
Almost three years into Sudan’s devastating war, estimates put the death count at over 150,000, more than 21 million people are facing acute hunger and in 2025 alone, of the total population of 46.8 million, a staggering 30.4 million people …
MELBOURNE, Australia — Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus’s most prominent opposition leader, tours the Western world, soliciting support for her government in exile as sanctions against Alexander Lukashenka, a man she describes as a “relic,” “fossil,” “lame duck” and “dictator” seem to …
At a recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, celebration of hard-won gains in the field ran up against a disheartening canon of well-financed threats and efforts against women’s rights and gender policies worldwide. The state of the …
Olukemi Ibikunle, 43, cracked the code for getting establishments to break new ground. In Nigeria, where government processes can be slow and bureaucracy creates obstacles that can stifle innovations, Ibikunle as a corrections official, got the authority to literally knock …
During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in late September, calls grew louder than ever for the world body to finally appoint a woman as secretary-general. For eight decades, the UN’s top post has been held exclusively by men. …
Iraq’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in November, and though the country has a new women-led political party, al-Mawadda — meaning, loosely, “affection” or “solidarity” in Arabic — it will not be contesting them officially. After more than …
Women are underrepresented and misrepresented in the news globally, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project 2025 report. It revealed that only 1.8 percent of news coverage focuses on gender-based violence despite the prevalence of the problem among women, who …
When United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced in a post on X that he had “proudly ENDED” the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017 by his department, he sparked immediate backlash from women’s rights advocates worldwide. Indeed, …
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 …
With her calm demeanor and academic background, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has quickly become one of the most talked-about political figures worldwide. Despite having no experience in foreign policy, over the past two months, she has impressed people inside her …
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