In collaboration with the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN, IPI convened a hybrid policy forum on the margins of the UN Security Council’s Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) on October 25th. The…
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Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, told a thronged reception at IPI that the gender parity policy that she and Secretary-General António Guterres have championed at the UN must run through the entire organization.“We want to see gender parity not just at the level of USG and ASG in positions of decision-making—that […]
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The fight for gender equality is a fight that should not be fought by women, but by men for women and with women,” Mohammad Naciri said at a March 16th IPI policy forum on the theme of men’s roles in preventing violence against women.“Men hold many of the positions of power across the globe, and […]
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Ayodele Odusola, UNDP’s Chief Economist for Africa, made this observation at an IPI policy forum, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations, on March 15th, 2017 on “Peace and the Gender Gap: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Fragile Communities.”“Africa loses $95 billion a year by not fully engaging women […]
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“For humanitarian actors, staying away is not an option,” said Els Debuf, commenting on the increasing risks facing humanitarian workers. “That is what humanitarian action is all about. We must take measures to enable humanitarian action.”Ms. Debuf, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at IPI, made the observation in introducing a March 1st meeting on “Strengthening Humanitarian […]
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