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• Women Wednesday: Clare Hutchinson

  August 20, 2019

  

  “We must get more women into leadership positions around the world. We must do better in having women have strong voices and articulate those voices at the table…"

• Feminist Friday: António Guterres

  August 16, 2019

  

  “The UN must be at the forefront of the global movement towards gender equality, an inalienable and indivisible feature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms: progressively moving from perceiving women and girls as a subject of protection to promoting their empowerment; from an isolated focus on women to gender mainstreaming.”

• Indigenous Women and the Women, Peace and Security Movement

  August 09, 2019 in Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

   Epidemic. Crisis. Genocide. These are all words used to describe the sheer volume of violence Native and indigenous women face in North America. How can the Women, Peace and Security movement be leveraged for the benefit of indigenous women?

• The Parallels of Human Trafficking and Human Security

  August 01, 2019 in Peace and Security

  

  The past three presidents have made human trafficking a governance priority. But is human trafficking a threat against individuals or a national security threat? Can it be both?

• Women Wednesday: Maria Grazia Giammarinaro

  July 30, 2019 in Leadership and Participation

  

  “Preventive anti-trafficking measures should be considered both as life-saving interventions and as being aimed at preventing violence against women."

• Feminist Friday: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury 

  July 25, 2019 in Engaging Men

  

  “Without peace, development is impossible, and without development, peace is not achievable, but without women, neither peace nor development is possible.”

• Podcasts for Peace and Security

  July 22, 2019 in Peace and Security, Policy and Tools

  

  In honor of summer vacations and long road trips, we’re recommending three podcasts that are giving us life! Each puts a unique focus on varying security issues.  Some shows dedicate more attention to the application of a gender perspective.

• Women Wednesday: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  July 17, 2019 in Leadership and Participation, Story of Women, Women's Rights and Empowerment

  

  “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

• Policy Frameworks Supporting the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the U.S. Context

  July 08, 2019 by Erin Cooper, Sahana Dharmapuri

  

  What are the national and international policy frameworks that shaped the U.S. Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 and the mandated WPS Strategy that followed? Our Secure Future partnered with some congressional offices to request the Congressional Research Service to illuminate these structures that supported this landmark change for U.S. foreign policy. 

• Happy Independence Day!

  July 03, 2019

  

  Today, we celebrate the independence of thought and a vision of security with a gender perspective.

• OSF Fellow Ambassador Donald Steinberg on the U.S. Strategy for Women, Peace and Security—Seizing the Moment?

  June 29, 2019 in Engaging Men, Peace and Security, Policy and Tools by Ambassador Donald Steinberg

  

  OSF Fellow Ambassador Donald Steinberg shares his thoughts on the recently released U.S. Government Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security and next steps to ensure implementation.

• My First Lesson on Peace

  May 31, 2019 in Story of Women

  

  On September 11, 2001, I was getting my hands decorated with henna. Mr. A switched on the television. What we saw next made our breath catch in our throats. An aircraft dovetailed into the North Wing of the World Trade Centre. I remembered the building from a gigantic picture of New York by Night that my father held onto for years at home, and now it was fast dissipating into dust.

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