“We are witnessing widespread efforts to silence and delegitimize, specifically targeted at women human rights defenders,” Michelle Bachelet, the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a September 27th forum at IPI on human rights defenders.In one of her first public appearances since becoming High Commissioner three weeks earlier, Ms. Bachelet, the former […]
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Human rights violations and lack of accountability for such violations are often drivers of conflict. Monitoring human rights, therefore, could provide early warning of and help prevent destabilization of societies. Secretary-General António Guterres alluded to this in his April 2017 address to the Security Council, where he observed that “upholding human rights is a crucial […]
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In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, perhaps one of the boldest steps the global community can make is to truly upend how it approaches peace: to move away from ideas of merely including women in broken processes, and to move towards creating necessary systemic…
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