Summary Citation Desai, Bharat H. and Balraj K. Sidhu“End Sexual Violence Against Women in Conflicts – the Tribune,” The Tribune, December 28, 2018, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/comment/end-sexual-violence-against-women-in-conflicts-705031/.
Summary The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021. The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.…
Summary Recent presidential administrations—representing both parties—have argued in their national security strategies that the key challenge before the United States is that of countering authoritarian regimes that seek to undermine democracies and rewrite the rules of the world order to be more favorable to dictatorial governments. This brief lays an analytic foundation for considering gender…
Summary Pakistani reporter Kiran Nazish’s coalition has helped thousands of women being attacked or detained for their work. But, she warns, the situation has reached a crisis point. Citation Barber, Harriet. 2024. “‘They are putting their lives on the line every day to report’: the woman standing up for female journalists against rising repression.” The…
Abstract On June 26, 2024, the Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Prosecutor v Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mahomed Ag Mahmoud, the first case on gender based persecution under the Rome Statute, failed to convict Al Hassan of any gender based crimes and acquitted him of the rape as…
Summary Progress towards gender parity has seen major setbacks in recent years and the risk of further regression is intensifying. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a generational loss, increasing the projected time to reach global gender parity from 100 to 132 years between 2020 and 2022. Women’s rights are under pressure around the world. Achieving gender…
Summary This briefing discusses the most pressing priorities that the public health emergency poses for justice leaders and proposes seven areas for urgent action as the tide of infections continues to rise. It will soon be followed by a second briefing to cover the role justice plays in the economic crisis and recovery, and in…
Abstract Policies and public health efforts have not addressed the gendered impacts of disease outbreaks. The response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears no different. We are not aware of any gender analysis of the outbreak by global health institutions or governments in affected countries or in preparedness phases. Recognising the extent to which disease outbreaks…
Summary How peace initiatives get off the ground sustainably and inclusively is a vital but comparatively uncharted challenge for effective peace support. In February 2019 Conciliation Resources convened a three-day dialogue among a range of people with hands-on experience of the early phases of peace talks and peacebuilding processes from different regions and perspectives. This…
Abstract In November 2012, a second group of women from the N-Peace network countries were trained through a training of trainers programme carried out by UNDP APRC and Inclusive Security. This intensive training equipped women with knowledge and skills to advance Women, Peace & Security issues. The stories that fi ll these pages were shared…
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