November 1, 2023
Take a Spring 2024 Class on Gender & Global Affairs
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 2024,…
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October 24, 2023
Top 5 Takeaways from the 2023 WPS Index
By: Ava Kawamura
Around the world, health crises, violent conflict, political unrest, and climate change have exacerbated economic difficulties, destroyed social infrastructures, and magnified gender inequalities. The advancement of women's rights lies at…
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September 29, 2023
GIWPS Highlights Afghanistan at UN General Assembly
By: GIWPS
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) participated in the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week, an annual convening that brings together world leaders,…
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September 28, 2023
We Can. We Will: Women, Peace and Security, Climate Week NYC, and the Run Up to COP28
By: Marisa O. Ensor
With the motivational theme “We Can. We Will,” Climate Week NYC 2023 (September 19-24) was the most recent of a series of high-level events promoting transformative action on issues of gender, climate, peace…
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September 8, 2023
Responding to the Crisis in Sudan
By: GIWPS
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security hosted a virtual panel discussion, “Caught in the Crossfire: Sudanese Women’s Struggle for Peace”, to raise awareness and offer solutions to the…
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August 15, 2023
Take a Class on Gender & Global Affairs
By: GIWPS
This fall, Georgetown University is offering a variety of graduate courses that leverage a gender lens to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time. There are also a…
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August 2, 2023
Taliban’s ban on beauty salons: Why it matters
By: GIWPS
Afghan women found their salons empty and, in some cases, padlocked from the outside by Taliban officials on July 25. This is the result of a recent edict which decreed…
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August 1, 2023
ASEAN must prioritize women on the frontlines of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar
By: Helen Rocker
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remains divided on how to address the crisis in Myanmar, as the situation continues to escalate and women and girls are increasingly threatened…
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July 24, 2023
Georgetown delegation reports from Jordan
By: GIWPS
Georgetown Ambassadors for Women, Peace and Security traveled to Jordan this June to learn more about peace and security in the Middle East and the role of women, and to…
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June 29, 2023
Lessons from Afghan women’s empowerment journey—and what can be done now
GIWPS distinguished fellow Amb. Roya Rahmani offers her opinion on how to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan under Taliban rule in a new report published by the Atlantic Council. The…
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