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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Afghanistan: Taliban ‘may be responsible for gender apartheid’ says rights expert
United Nations News
The plight of women and girls in Afghanistan featured prominently at the Human Rights Council on Monday where independent UN-appointed rights experts warned of systematic “gender apartheid” and “gender persecution”. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner...
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Source: The Guardian
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Angola debates the women’s role in building peace and democracy
The Guardian
The Angolan vice-president, Esperança da Costa, will open this Thursday, 25th, the 1st International Women’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, in an event that will also involve, as speakers, like Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (former President of the...
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IPINST
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Achieving Sustainable Peace and Security through Gender-Responsive Leadership
On Wednesday, September 21st, IPI together with the Government of Sweden, and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, in cooperation with the Folke Bernadotte Academy, is cohosting the annual Women, Peace, and Leadership Symposium at IPI on “Achieving...
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African women and girls: leading a continent - Cover Brooking
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Academic Paper / Article
African women and girls: leading a continent
Brookings
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf While rebuilding a country previously engulfed in civil war for over 14 years, my administration oversaw, then, one of the deadliest health crises of the 21st century. I, Africa’s first democratically elected woman president...
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Georgetown Institute For Women, Peace and Security
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Advancing Women’s Leadership in Politics and Peacebuilding
Women play major roles as decision-makers and leaders advancing peace and prosperity around the world. Yet progress on women’s political representation has been slow and uneven. Only 22 countries have women in the highest position of political power...
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Habiba Sarabi was the only woman in the government’s 12-strong team at talks in Moscow on Thursday. The Taliban delegation had none. Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AP
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Afghan peace summit includes just one female delegate
The Guardian
A three-day conference aimed at breathing life into Afghanistan’s stalled peace process has been launched in Moscow, but Afghan human rights activists have raised the alarm that the delegates included just one woman. Habiba Sarabi, an activist and...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
African feminists emphasize key to global peace
Truth Dig
By H. Patricia, On the eve of World War II, the iconic writer Virginia Woolf responded to a male attorney’s question about how to prevent war. The key, she replied, is that women must be educated and able to earn a living. Only then, once they were...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Millennial beats veteran Democrat
BBC
A millennial candidate has shaken up the US Democratic Party by defeating the incumbent congressman for his seat. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated political veteran Joe Crowley, 56, on Tuesday night in their party's congressional primary in...
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Africa's first elected woman president has transformed Liberia
Newsweek
On Monday, Liberia inaugurated a new president and the nation’s first female vice president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ended her presidency the way she began it—shattering precedent. The first woman to be elected president of an African nation has...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
American Muslim Women and Trump
The Atlantic publishes the following article on the relationship between American Muslim women and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Access the original article at The Atlantic’s website. Donald Trump has effectively declared Muslims the enemy, ...
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Afghan Women Need Support in Building Peace
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 80 people in Kabul in late July, marking the worst attack in Afghanistan in months. With NATO withdrawing from the country and the international community at large...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
A Year in Crisis for Yemen’s Women
According to UNFPA, there are 21.2 million people in need in Yemen, 3.4 million of them women and girls of reproductive age. Women & Girls Hub published this article by UNFPA Yemen. Click here to access the full news story. During times of...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Report / White Paper
Access to Justice for Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Mesoamerica
The Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the IACHR”) presents this thematic report in which it examines the dimensions of the problem of sexual violence in Mesoamerica.  It examines the regulatory and...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Report / White Paper
ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR WOMEN VICTIMS OF SEXUAL   VIOLENCE: EDUCATION AND HEALTH
Time and time again, the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the “IACHR” or the “Commission”) has stressed how vital access to justice is to eradicating violence against women once and for all.    On a number of occasions, the...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Angelina Jolie-Pitt appointed as Professor of Practice at the LSE
Hollywood star and human rights activist, Angelina Jolie-Pitt, has been recently appointed as Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, within its new Centre for Women, Peace and Security (WPS). This position is unpaid and honorary,...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Article explores the origins and career of women's rights activists Winnie Byanyima
Journalist Johnny Magdaleno has recently published an article on Ugandan politician Winnie Byanyima in GOOD Magazine. Ms. Byanyima is also Oxfam International Executive Director and has a long career as activist for women’s rights. She also served...
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Monday, March 21, 2016
A CSW60 Side Event with female ambassadors about the UN Security Council
Organized by the United Nations (UN) Department of Political Affairs and hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN, a side event on the role of women in the Security Council took place on March 16, 2016, on the sidelines of the...
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Monday, February 01, 2016
Afghan women fight for bigger voice in peace process
According to Human Rights Watch, Afghan women have been denied participation in the last 20 rounds of official peace negotiations. The exclusion of women is explained by some to be the result of women’s limited representation in Afghanistan, where...
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