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Prominent Women’s Rights Advocate Swanee Hunt Visits Korea
This article was originally published by Korea JoongAng Daily. Swanee Hunt, a Harvard University professor, who is highly renowned not only in the academic community but also in the political circle and on the global arena, is currently doing research on all kinds of gender equality barriers that keep women out of the job market. […]
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Keepers of the Peace
This article was originally published by Newsweek. Nowhere are women leaders more essential than in countries devastated by war. Studies from the World Economic Forum and Harvard-based nonprofit the Initiative for Inclusive Security show that women are better at creating and keeping the peace in post-conflict societies because women are–generally–less violent than their male counterparts. […]
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Where Quotas Work
This article was originally published by the Los Angeles Times. The new Iraqi constitution — to be approved or rejected in a nationwide referendum today — includes a provision that would never get passed in the United States: It sets aside at least 25% of the seats in parliament for women. Such an idea would […]
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Women Are Key to UN Reforms
This article was originally published by Scripps Howard News Service. In his first public undertaking as US Ambassador, John Bolton is pressing for sweeping institutional reforms at the United Nations. His approach is presumably intended to enhance UN efforts at peacekeeping, fighting terrorism, nuclear disarmament, and democratization. This week, 175 world leaders will convene for […]
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A Small Shower in the Desert
This article was originally published by Scripps Howard News Service. This past weekend, I saw “Hotel Rwanda,” one of this year’s Academy Award nominees. The film tells the story of the 1994 genocide, through a personal and true tale. It was a chilling experience, not just because the notion of genocide is impossible to comprehend, […]
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Women’s Voices Rise as Rwanda Reinvents Itself
This article was originally published in The New York Times. The most remarkable thing about Rwanda’s Parliament is not the war-damaged building that houses it, with its bullet holes and huge artillery gashes still visible a decade after the end of the fighting. It is inside the hilltop structure, from the spectator seats of the […]
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Women’s Rights: Iran’s Bitter Lessons for Iraq
This article, co-authored by Swanee Hunt and Isobel Coleman, was originally published by International Herald Tribune. Before the recent elections, leading Iraqi politicians did their best to assuage concerns of their more secular compatriots by promising moderation and inclusion. But election rhetoric is not reality. An important test will be how these leaders address women’s […]
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Muslim Women in the Bosnian Crucible
In this academic piece for the journal Sex Roles, Hunt interviewed 26 Bosnian women from different ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds. Challenging misconceptions about the role of Islam in Bosnia, the women reflected on three interconnected features of their lives: “the effect on sex roles of the political turmoil of the past century, the particular […]
