The upcoming Summit of the Future is an opportunity to turbocharge efforts toward a more peaceful, secure, and sustainable world. Discussions on revitalizing the work of the General Assembly and the Security Council reform can further serve as avenues…
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“Water, and the proper provision of water for civilians around the world, is critical to every dimension of what the UN multilateral system seeks to do in partnership with member states,” said Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister of Australia and chair of IPI’s Board of Directors.Mr. Rudd, who is also Chair of the Sanitation […]
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Karin Landgren, the Executive Director of Security Council Report and the first woman to have led three United Nations peace operations, was talking about her 35 years of experience at the UN working with men and how to make that partnership more effective in the future.“I’m convinced that men hear other men more effectively than […]
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What is the current state of feminist leadership and progress advancing gender equality at the United Nations? The election of a new Secretary-General in 2016 opened an avenue for the UN to implement an agenda that puts gender equality and women’s rights at the heart of everything it does. However, even after two decades of […]
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On March 13th, IPI and Peace is Loud co-hosted a policy forum on women’s participation in peace negotiations and peacekeeping, featuring a screening of two scenes from the new PBS documentary film series Women, War and Peace II. Filmmakers and prominent women peacemakers took part in a discussion on the two films.In welcoming remarks, Madeleine […]
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Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and […]
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