Globalization, Human Rights & Security

International organizations and multilateral financial institutions play important roles in advancing the status of women and girls worldwide. The United Nations and its agencies, such as the UN Development Program, UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and others, have made strides in efforts to “mainstream” gender initiatives throughout their policies and programs. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution in September 2009 to unify the four main organizations for gender equality into one unified entity. The new agency will unite UNIFEM, the DESA Division for the Advancement of Women, the Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues, and INSTRAW under one roof. This move aims to strengthen international support for gender equality, reduce bureaucratic redundancies and inefficiencies as well as improve accountability a and oversight . There is also a call for increased participation by civil society in monitoring governments and international organizations to ensure that their respective programs are actually improving the lives of women and girls.

Critical Issue: Haiti: Gender Dimension of Humanitarian Relief Efforts

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A Feminist Approach to UN Women
afaitelson
Margot Baruch, an NCRW AMEX Fellow, recently posted a blog analyzing the newly established UN Women program. She writes that in order “for UN...
UN Women: The Way Forward
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Alissa Vladimir*On Saturday, February 26, women’s human rights leaders, scholars, and advocates gathered at The New School to discuss...
Human Face of Economic Policy
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Kyla Bender-BairdStarting off their mornings with some light economic policy talk, people crowded into the Drew Room at the UN Church Center on...
From the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Kyla Bender-Baird
On September 23, 2010, UN delegates gathered to call for an end to human rights violations directed againg LGBT people.  According to this...
Perception, Misconceptions and Survivors: A UN Hosted Discussion on Human Trafficking
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Kyla Bender-Baird

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  • Vatican nun crackdown hits US group for 'radical feminist' ideas
    April 19, 2012

    A report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog, accuses the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States, of taking positions that...
  • A cover-up in the beautiful game
    April 18, 2012

    The Globe and Mail article discusses the International Football Association Board's unanimous recommendation to rescind the hijab ban first introduced by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association in 2007.
  • Rogge hopes Saudis will send women to London
    April 16, 2012

    Sports Illustrated reports that the International Olympic Committee is stilltalking to Saudi Arabia about sending women to the London Games, despite a report that the conservative Muslim country's national Olympic committee resists the idea.
  • Report: Saudis may not send women to Olympics
    April 6, 2012

     Plans for Saudi Arabia to send women to the Olympics for the first time appear to be in jeopardy.
  • New tool helps U.S. group track sex crimes in Syria
    April 1, 2012

    The Women's Media Center is using new crowd-sourcing techniques to track rape and other sexual violence across Syria in one of the first efforts to monitor assaults against women during military conflict in real-time.