The recent fight by U.S. officials to water down a UN resolution on conflict-related sexual violence was both an insult and an injury to survivors of rape in war.
Category: Global
Without Afghan Women, There Can Be No Peace
Afghan women have been demanding to be included in peace negotiations with the U.S. since they began. We should have listened to them.
Then and Now: Looking Back at a Decade of Girl-Fueled Activism in Liberia
In 2010, Rosana Schaack met Aisha Cooper Bruce through Rise Up’s program in Liberia. In the years since, they’ve successfully passed a groundbreaking Children’s Law and led implementation of a nationwide Girls’ Manifesto.
Former Ambassador Melanne Verveer is Calling for Women’s Inclusion in Afghan Peace Talks
“No one has suffered more at the hands of the Taliban than the women of Afghanistan,” Melanne Verveer—executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and a former U.S. ambassador for Global Women’s Issues—explains in a new op-ed in USA Today.
Ending Impunity for Gender-Based Violence in Genocide
Centering gender in the pursuit of justice for the Rohingya sends a strong message that the days of impunity for sexual violence are numbered.
What the Consequences of Zimbabwe’s Abortion Restrictions Mean for the U.S.
A new study has confirmed what I and many others have known for a long time: Restricting abortion access actually leads to an increase in abortions.
The Daughters Left Behind
In her new memoir, Knitting the Fog, chapina writer Claudia Hernández reflects on the impact of her mother’s difficult decision to flee domestic violence and poverty in Guatemala and immigrate illegally into the U.S.
We Don’t Need to “Fix” Women—We Need to Build Systems That Work for Them
Most of the global conversations on women’s empowerment in the agriculture sector have been about how women can contribute to food security and poverty reduction, and how we need to organize them and build their capacity to play this role better and more effectively. This is not enough.
We Heart: Denmark Prime Minister’s Frank Rejection of Trump’s “Absurd” Offer
Mette Frederiksen rejected the possibility of selling Greenland to the United States as “an absurd discussion.” In response, the president called Frederiksen “nasty” and cancelled his upcoming September visit.
Fleeing Gender Apartheid
“I lost everything in one day,” Layla, who fled Saudi Arabia, says a few months later outside a refugee settlement in Germany. Her voice trembles with still-raw fear. “But only one thing mattered: For the first time, I was free.”