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An Effective Weapon in the War on Terror: Women
This article was originally published by Global Post. A 16-year-old boy from a small village in the Khyber Agency near Peshawar answered the Taliban’s call and the militants set about grooming him to be a suicide bomber. He underwent a rigorous indoctrination and was trained to “accept martyrdom,” to borrow the language used by the […]
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Pakistani Women Work for Peace Amid Violence
This article was originally published by The Boston Globe. Last month in Lahore, Pakistan, a court ordered the noses and ears of two brothers cut off after they were convicted of doing the same thing to Fazeelat Bibi, a 21 year-old woman who had declined a marriage proposal from one of them. Although few believe […]
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Civil Society Now: Darfuris Gather in Doha
This article was originally published by Save Darfur/United to End Genocide. This week, the African Union/United Nations Chief Mediator Djibril Bassolé will begin consultations with 150 Darfuri civil society representatives in Doha, Qatar. Rather than focusing on this important gathering though, the media over the weekend strangely focused on the postponement of negotiations between the […]
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Iraq’s Excluded Women
This article, co-authored by Swanee Hunt and Cristina Posa, was originally published by Foreign Policy. It was August 2003 in the Iraqi city of Najaf — long before the holy city’s takeover by Muslim cleric Moktada al-Sadr — and U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Conlin faced a dilemma. Arriving at a swearing-in ceremony for Nidal […]
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Quotes of the Week
This article was originally published by Enough Project. Speaking last week at a panel discussion hosted by the Nobel Women’s Initiative in Washington, D.C., Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai discussed prospects for peace in Sudan and had these wise words on the future of a credible peace process in Darfur and throughout the country: “It is […]
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SUDAN: Nobel Laureates Demand Women Be Part of Peace Talks
This article was originally published by Inter Press Service. The international community must act immediately to resolve the political and humanitarian crises facing Sudan, said a panel of leading Sudan experts at a briefing here Tuesday, and ensure that any peace process formally include women’s input. “We were heartened by the Qatar process, and the […]
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Women Parliamentarians: Caucusing for Equality and Effectiveness
This article was originally published by Governance Village. Last week, as a group of eleven women passed through security at a federal building in Washington, DC, a security guard asked where the group was from. “Sudan,” one of them answered. “Where are the men?” he followed-up. After a brief pause, one replied, “At home, fighting […]
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Inclusive Security: The Importance of Women’s Leadership in Conflict Resolution
At the Club of Madrid’s 2008 conference on Global Leadership for Shared Societies, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, chair of the Institute for Inclusive Security, conducted interviews with 15 Club of Madrid members on the importance of women’s leadership in politics and peace processes.
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Women Are the Emerging Power of the 21st Century
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe. As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, one gathering in particular testified to the resilience of the human spirit. Some 800 guests assembled in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia on the coast of West Africa, for the International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership […]
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The UN’s R2P Report Is Missing Out by Half
This article, co-authored by Swanee Hunt and Sheila B. Lalwani, was originally published by Huffington Post. A few days ago, the United Nations released its latest report on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the international commitment to prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The report comes at a good time: President Obama is […]
