The most effective international mechanism to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment is not the cumbersome UN CSW, it’s CEDAW, and it’s time to use it to make governments accountable.
With pressure mounting for the next UN Secretary General to be a woman, is it too much to ask that she also be a feminist?
Feminism: a way of thought and a way of being that can and has made change. We must stand up for humanity now so that our children can have theirs.
With opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week's UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks on practical measures to build global security without nuclear weapons.
The U.S. Department of Defense has paid scant attention to local women in conflict as either aggressors, crucial fighting support, or powerful peace builders - to the detriment of global security.
Those organising Syria’s peace talks must go beyond merely ticking the gender representation box. It's essential to move towards real inclusion of women peace advocates and larger civil society.
At the World Court of Women meeting held in Bangalore witnesses to violence and injustice highlighted political lessons and resistance, asking that we all take responsibility to oppose the unending wars against women.
The South Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s military sexual slavery was announced on 28 December, 2015, but it ignores the efforts by the victim-survivors movement to seek justice for their suffering.
Recognizing and understanding Palestinian women’s unprecedented engagement in the latest wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank is a small but important step in ending this new uprising.
The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for the meeting on Syria’s peace talks. Yet an indispensable party is missing: Syrian women.
“There are overarching narratives, and then there are people just trying to live their lives within them.” Does COP21 speak to the most vulnerable people trying to survive climate change now?
Parallel to COP21, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened in Paris. The ‘climate crimes’ it heard were deeply connected to other systemic injustices: patriarchy, racism and capitalism.
