November 20, 2024
The Gender-Climate-Security Nexus: Expert Recommendations for COP29 and Beyond
By: GIWPS
World leaders, policymakers, and activists are gathered for the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) amid growing recognition of the convergent threats of climate change and conflict and their disproportionate…
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November 13, 2024
GIWPS launches MENA Initiative in Doha, Qatar
By: GIWPS
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) recently held a series of events in Doha, Qatar, where we launched a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Women Peacebuilders Initiative…
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November 7, 2024
COP29: Our Recommendations for Gender-Inclusive Climate Action
By: GIWPS
Ahead of the 25th Anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in 2025, it is more important than ever to prioritize gender on the COP29 agenda and set…
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October 30, 2024
Take a Course in Gender, Diversity, or International Security this Spring
By: GIWPS
Georgetown University offers a broad variety of graduate courses that teach students to critically engage with the most pressing issues of our time using a gender lens. In Spring 2025,…
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September 10, 2024
Sanctions are a key tool to support Afghan women and girls
By: GIWPS
Women are now forbidden from showing their faces or using their voices in Afghanistan after the Taliban issued a new restriction in August. Since their takeover three years ago, approximately…
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August 28, 2024
The Global Women Leaders’ Letter Ahead of COP29
By: GIWPS
We write to urge that gender equality be centered in COP29 – the finance COP – and that women’s leadership be advanced in all climate-related decision-making. The July 2024 meeting…
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August 21, 2024
Political leaders and peacebuilders gathered for this year’s Global Women Leaders Summit
By: GIWPS
High-level political leaders came together with grassroots peacebuilders at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in June. There, the leaders discussed climate change, women’s political leadership, and standing with and supporting…
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August 15, 2024
Marking 3 Years of Taliban Oppression: Statement from the U.S. Policy Advocates for Afghan Women and Girls
By: GIWPS
Download the Statement Three years have passed since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Since then, the situation for the people of Afghanistan has grown increasingly grave. The Taliban regime…
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June 28, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on accountability for war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine
By: GIWPS
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, Oleksandra Matviichuk, led a discussion to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict…
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June 26, 2024
Highlights from the 56th session of the Human Rights Council
By: GIWPS
GIWPS joined this year’s Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland to call for the codification of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity, in solidarity with Afghan and Iranian women.…
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