Unless the General Assembly moves to adopt the popular request to limit the secretary general’s term to seven years, it might take until 2026 before another opportunity arises to appoint a woman to the role.
Tag: women peace and security
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Women in Afghanistan—particularly in southern and rural areas—do not have a robust knowledge of formal peace processes or how to sustain peace.
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Research on female leaders around the world suggests that women are more likely to get a chance to lead in times of political upheaval or decline, usually when parties are out of power or losing favor with voters.
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There are a number of bigger issues here. Was Jolie-Pitt’s appointment singled out for such vitriolic critique because she’s a woman (why criticize her appointment and not Hague’s, when their credentials are similar?) or famous (academic snobbery perhaps), or considered insufficiently intelligent? Whatever the answer, it does not reflect well on the academy.
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Former South Sudan Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Betty Ogwaro, discusses the role women can play in working toward peace in South Sudan.
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Alaa Murabit, Founding President of the Voice of Libyan Women, discusses the challenges facing youth, and young women in particular, and how the multilateral system can respond.
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According to Saba Ismail, co-founder and Executive Director of Aware Girls—a youth-led organization working for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan—young women are in turn the group most excluded from peacebuilding.
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What cannot be doubted is that more than half the population in Myanmar has had little formal opportunity to engage in the peace or parliamentary process.
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Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka discusses progress on women’s empowerment.
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New evidence shared in a recent IPI report, Reimagining Peacemaking, shows that when women are able to influence a peace process, a peace agreement is almost always reached and the agreement is more likely to be implemented.
