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Meeting with some of the Diet members
November 3, 2022

Women, Peace, and Security in Japan: Collaboration with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

By: Melanne Verveer

During the week of October 17, GIWPS and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) engaged in a series of high-level meetings and programs to advance the UN Security Council’s women, peace…
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Flags of OSCE participating states
June 19, 2020

Remarks to Mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict

By: Melanne Verveer

Remarks of the OSCE Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Ambassador Melanne Verveer. Delivered to the OSCE Permanent Council to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual…
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Afghan women listen to a speaker address a political gathering at a wedding hall in Kabul on September 26, 2013. Member of parliament Fawzia Kofi addressed approximately a hundred supporters in the hall ahead of the 2014 elections. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
November 25, 2014

Moving the Needle Forward on Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

By: Melanne Verveer

By Ambassador Melanne Verveer Originally posted on The Huffington Post here. This weekend, policy and thought leaders gathered in Norway for the Oslo Symposium on Advancing Women’s Rights and Empowerment in Afghanistan,…
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Women's economic participation
November 19, 2014

Driving Growth Through Women’s Economic Participation

By: Melanne Verveer

By Ambassador Melanne Verveer Originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Women’s economic participation is a game-changer with the potential to transform entire economies and societies. The recently released World Economic Forum Gender…
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Nailatu Al-Quasm, 12, stands in her classroom at Gyezmo primary school in the town of Toro, Bauchi State. Other students are nearby. Their school is among the beneficiaries of the Girls’ Education Project (GEP). Led by the Government with support from the United Kingdom’s Department of International Development (DFID) and UNICEF, the GEP aims to get 1 million more girls into school by 2020, while at the same improving the quality of education. The project also calls for the deployment of more than 10,000 female teachers to rural areas, where the predominance of male teachers deters many parents from sending their girls to school. Nailatu enrolled in school during the GEP’s kick off in Bauchi. Her father, Kasimu Limon Toro, who now runs a traditional Koranic school in a hut near the family’s home, did not learn to write until he attended adult literacy classes, but he insists that all his 15 children “including the 11 girls” must get a good education. “I will support her in this with all my heart, until the day I die,” he said of Nailatu’s dreams of becoming a doctor. “I want to help people. I want to help my mother, my father, my brothers, my sisters,” said Nailatu.
September 29, 2014

Securing Safe Access to Education for Girls in Nigeria & Beyond

By: Melanne Verveer

By Ambassador Melanne Verveer Originally posted in Huffington Post here. In April 2014, the world’s attention turned to Nigeria as word spread that the militant group Boko Haram had kidnapped some…
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