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Being Hillary: Hero Abroad, Punching Bag at Home
This article was originally published by Newsweek. It’s been 20 years since first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton took the podium in Beijing and gave a historic speech defining women’s rights as human rights. She said rape, female genital mutilation, domestic violence and infant gender-selection practices were human rights violations that could no longer be considered […]
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At CGIU, Women Urged to Play Role in Sustainable Peace Negotiations
This article was originally published by The Miami Hurricane. Juniors Daniela Lorenzo and Mariana Gaviria don’t include “burning bras” in their agenda for making a change, but instead look to open conversation on de-stigmatizing the “F” word: feminism. Their project, also called The “F” Word, was created in late September after they watched Emma Watson’s […]
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Four Courageous Women Who Are Making a Difference
This article was originally published by The Boston Globe. They are four women who do brave things in terrifying places: their own countries. They were in the United States recently for a colloquium, sponsored by Cambridge’s Institute for Inclusive Security, focusing on how to bring women more effectively into peace processes in some of the […]
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Where Airstrikes Fall Short, the West Can Still Act to End Violence Against Women
This article was originally published by Council on Foreign Relations. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) atrocities against women have provoked worldwide outrage, generating increased support for U.S. action in the region and hundreds of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since August. Yet for all this indignation, similar abuses against women, including child […]
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Nicholas Kristof: “Empowering Women is a Security Issue”
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently spoke at the home of Inclusive Security’s founder, Ambassador Swanee Hunt. Noting that “where [Afghan] moms are a little more empowered, they keep their sons out of the Taliban,” he suggested shifting investments from the “military toolbox” to women’s education and leadership.
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Senate Hearing Reignites Hope For CEDAW and I-VAWA
This article was originally published by Ms. Magazine. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), surveying the chamber before her, a room packed with senators, diplomats, feminist leaders, scholars and activists, proudly proclaimed, “I’m looking at an iconic picture here.” At last week’s U.S. Senate Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues […]
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The Old Boys Club and the Failure of Peacekeeping
Reuters This article was originally published by The Weekly Wonk and syndicated in TIME. Bill Clinton got the photo op handshake but, in the end, failed. So did Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. John Kerry joins a long list of men — Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, George Mitchell — who have unsuccessfully […]
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Senate Hearing on the Canadian National Action Plan for UNSCR 1325
Inclusive Security Director Jacqueline O’Neill testified before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights regarding the importance of National Action Plans (NAPs) on women, peace, and security. The committee, chaired by Sen. Mobina Jaffer, met to examine Canada’s progress and commitments related to UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Witnesses from the Canadian ministries of […]
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Pakistan’s Women Are Helping Identify and Counter Extremism
This article was written by Danielle Shapiro and originally published by The Daily Beast. As Mossarat Qadeem tells the story, the big clue came from a simple source: a young woman who noticed her brother spending time with strangers. It was about one year ago in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, formerly called the North-West Frontier province, when the […]
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The Triumph of Rwanda’s Women
This article was originally published by The Daily Beast. Twenty years ago, Eugenie Mukeshimana was eight months pregnant when genocide broke out in her homeland of Rwanda. As hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were slaughtered in a matter of only months, Mukeshimana saw first-hand the fantastic lengths her fellow mothers and women would go to […]
