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• Women in Diplomacy Podcast: Women, Peace and Security at NATO with Amb. Marriët Schuurman

  February 22, 2017 in Leadership and Participation, Policy and Tools, Women's Rights and Empowerment by Caroline Meserve

  

  The Foreign Policy Project is an educational mentorship program for young women interested in careers in international relations. The project produces a podcast called “Women in Diplomacy.”

• Saying Their Peace: Rana Allam

  February 14, 2017 in Leadership and Participation, Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

  Every Wednesday, the OSF blog highlights quotes from various peacemakers making significant contributions to peace and the advancement of women's rights.

  Check out the OSF blog weekly for these and other posts.

• Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?

  February 14, 2017 in Peace and Security by Caroline Meserve

  

  Empowered women have the agency and ability to move a society rife with conflict toward sustainable peace.

• Saying Their Peace: Arno Michaelis

  February 08, 2017 in Engaging Men, Male Allies for WPS, Peace and Security

  

  Every Wednesday, the OSF blog highlights quotes from various peacemakers making significant contributions to peace and the advancement of women's rights.

  Check out the OSF blog weekly for these and other posts.

• Saying Their Peace: Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

  January 31, 2017 in Leadership and Participation, Peace and Security

  

  Every Wednesday, the OSF blog highlights quotes from various peacemakers making significant contributions to peace and the advancement of women's rights.

  Check out the OSF blog weekly for these and other posts.

• Why WPS Needs Young Feminists

  January 27, 2017 in Women's Rights and Empowerment by Caroline Meserve

  

  I am a young feminist and I am here to tell you that you need us.

• Saying Their Peace: Rodolfo Manuel Domínguez Márquez

  January 25, 2017 in Engaging Men, Male Allies for WPS, Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

  Every Wednesday, the OSF blog highlights quotes from various peacemakers making significant contributions to peace and the advancement of women's rights.

  Check out the OSF blog weekly for these and other posts.

• Dear World, Move Us Toward Peace

  January 23, 2017 in Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

  Repeat after me... I am a woman, I am smart, I have opinions, I have feelings, I care, I make a difference, I matter, I am a woman and I am proud of who I am. -Nour, Algeria

• Saying their Peace: Melanie Greenberg

  January 18, 2017 in Peace and Security, Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

  Every Wednesday, the OSF blog highlights quotes from various peacemakers making significant contributions to peace and the advancement of women's rights.

  Check out the OSF blog weekly for these and other posts.

• “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” Audre Lorde

  January 16, 2017 in Women's Rights and Empowerment by Sahana Dharmapuri

  

  The Civil Rights Movement and the advancement of women’s rights are founded on the principle of equality and the respect for the dignity of all life.

• Women and Bicycles

  December 12, 2016 in Women's Rights and Empowerment by Sahana Dharmapuri

  

  On Human Rights Day, December 10^th, it’s good to remember the rights we enjoy.

  It took me a long time to learn how to ride a bicycle. At age seven, the training wheels embarrassing but I could not find my balance without them.  When the training wheels finally came off of my light blue, 10-speed Scwhinn, I did something that drove my mother crazy: I undid both of my long braids.

• Glass-Ladders and Glass-Cliffs

  December 12, 2016 in Leadership and Participation by Caroline Meserve

  

  With the newly elected U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, women are beginning to form a critical mass of representation within the world’s highest offices. 

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