The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

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How Long Do You Have to Wait to Hear a Woman at the UNGA? 53 Speakers, to Be Exact - PassBlueThe provisional schedule for speakers at the opening debate of the General Assembly 2020. Brenden Varma, ...

Allison Lecce is a graduate of Fordham University, with a degree in international studies and journalism. She received the Fordham College Alumni Association Journalism Scholars Award and is working ...

UN Budget Committee O.K.'s Major Reform of the UN, as Peacekeeping Is Squeezed - PassBlueThe departments of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Political Affairs (DPA) will become the departments of ...

Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...

Women's Rights Are Human Rights: How Equality Became a US Foreign Policy Priority - PassBlueCreating institutions Beyond rhetorical changes, the conference sparked new formal programs and offices ...

The intensifying controversy over decriminalizing “sex work” has prompted the head of UN Women to declare its neutrality on the subject, possibly further enflaming the dispute as preparations marking ...

Rosemary DiCarlo, the highest-ranking US official at the UN, is the first person to lead the newly created Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. Being the first woman in the post, she ...

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