EMPOWERING WOMEN "Progress or not?"
Volume XLVII Number 1 2010 (25.02.2010)
This issue is devoted to examining the unique challenges facing women and girls across the world. Top academics, non-governmental workers, activists and United Nations officials write of how to address these challenges, whether they are effectively being addressed at all and, if so, what worked and why, and what did not and why not? Among the prominent contributions, including articles by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, Thoraya Obaid, Rachel Mayanja, UN Messenger of Peace Charlize Theron and UN Citizen Ambassador Emily Troutman, are essays and first-person accounts of war and sexual violence, safety of refugee women and girls and the UN system's coordinated response to protecting the rights of women and girls everywhere.
- Time for Solidarity with Women of Haiti
- United Nations Agencies Forward Together in the Response to Violence Against Women
- At What Point Does One Lose One's Humanity?
- In Haiti... The World From Her Mother's Side
- Confronting Violence Against Women - What Has Worked Well and Why
- Armed Conflict and Women - 10 Years of Security Council Resolutin 1325
- Sexual Violence as a War Tactic - Security Council Resolution 1888: Next Steps
- Social Protection for Women
- Invisible in the Media
- An Invisible Life
- Women in Politics - The Fight to End Violence Against Women
- Educate Girls, Eradicate Poverty - A Mutually Reinforcing Goal
- Lives of Widows - A Hidden Issue
- A Story of Violence
- When Things Fall Apart
- Navigating Refugee Life
- Prevention, Prosection and Protection - Human Trafficking
- A Brief Survey of Women's Rights
- The Age of Accountability
- Secretary-General's Message on World Malaria Day, 25 April 2010
- Hungry to Learn
- UN Secretary-General's Message on Press Freedom Day
- THE DEADLINE HAS ARRIVED... Secretary-General's Message on the International Day for Biological Diversity
- Secretary-General's Message on International Day of Families
Biodiversity Is in Peril
By Ban Ki-moon
Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us, is in peril. Species are becoming extinct at the fastest rate ever recorded. Most of these extinctions are tied to human activities that are polluting and depleting water resources, changing and degrading habitats and altering the global climate. From frogs to gorillas, from huge plants to tiny insects, thousands of species are in jeopardy.
Time for Solidarity with Women of Haiti
By Asha-Rose Migiro
By Asha-Rose Migiro, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
I will never forget the time an earthquake shook Dodoma in 2002 when I was a parliamentarian in my home country of Tanzania. I had no idea how to react to the tremors and instinctively ran outside. Though I was fortunate that the tremors caused minimal damage, they brought home to me in a deeply personal way just how fragile we are. The earthquake that devastated Haiti brought these memories back vividly, and my heart went out to my many colleagues and the people of Haiti who have been deeply affected.
Hungry to Learn
By Asha-Rose Migiro, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General.
See also Ms. Migiro's "
Time for Solidarity with the Women of Haiti", a personal essay on the need for solidarity with the mothers and children of Haiti.
Mine is the rare job that allows me to meet, within the span of a very few hours, both a president and a homeless mother. And each told me the same thing.
Three months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, President Préval welcomed me to his offices in Port au Prince -- a modest building in the gardens behind his ruined presidential palace. Education, he said straight-off, must be a corner stone of the international effort to rebuild Haiti. Without that, there is no future.