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The Bravest 14-Year-OId In the World
…is Malala Yousafzai. She is a young activist in the Swat region of Pakistan who is a very vocal and public advocate for girls education. On her way to school yesterday a gunman stopped her bus and...
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What Supporting the Global Gag Rule Means…in Theory and Practice
News from the US Presidential election today: Mitt Romney today said no abortion legislation is part of his agenda, but he would prohibit federally-funded international nonprofits from providing...
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Why We Need an International Day of the Girl
Today is the first ever International Day of the Girl. There is a strong case to be made that this commemorative day is long overdue. Girls, particularly adolescent girls, hold the keys to uplifting...
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Pakistan in the Wake of The Malala Shooting. A Podcast with Dr. Nafis Sadik
On October 9, Taliban militants shot the 14-year-old Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai in the head at point blank range. She miraculously survived the assault and is recovering at a...
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Landmark Paternity Case in Afghanistan Uses DNA To Seek Justice for Women
Ed note. I am pleased to welcome Noorjahan Akbar to the UN Dispatch. Noorjahan is a women’s rights activist and blogger from Afghanistan, currently sociology student at Dickinson College in...
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What A Booming Cosmetic Surgery Industry in Kabul Says About Standards of...
Liane Gutcher, Leslie Knott and Clementine Malpas, are some of my favorite film-makers who have worked in Afghanistan. Previously, Knott and Malpas had created In-Justice, a film about women imprisoned...
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By Choice, Not By Chance: Increasing Access to Family Planning
As noted in Top of the Morning, the UN Population Fund released its flagship annual report, State of the World Population. This years’ report focused on the financial boon that results when women are...
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A Tenth Grade Girl in Afghanistan is Murdered
On Sunday, a tenth grader from Mahmoud Raqi Girls High School in Kapisa Province of Afghanistan named Anisa was shot seven times by a group of men while she was walking home from school. Anisa was also...
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Top 10 Global Health Milestones in 2012
The mass atrocity event in Connecticut took place just a few miles from my own elementary school. I don’t know about you, but I am in the mood for some uplifting news right now. PSI Impact magazine,...
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13 Stories That Will Drive the Global Agenda in 2013
Want to know what people, places and things will be driving the global agenda in 2013? The UN Dispatch team has you covered. This is a listicle for the discerning, global set. Add your own ideas and...
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Memories of a Childhood Interrupted in Afghanistan
I was born in an apartment building in Kabul, where we had inconsistent power and running water. My mother tells me that I used to love water and would scream, “Water is here. Power is here” every time...
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UN Dispatch Podcast: How to Accelerate Progress on Women and Children’s Health
In Oslo today, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stollenberg is hosting a meeting of heads of state, policy makers, donors, activists and NGOs committed to improving the health and welfare of women and...
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Why 2012 Was a Watershed Year for African Women
This post was co-written with Carol by Jason Warner, a PhD student in African Studies and Government at Harvard University. You may have missed it, but 2012 was a very a big year for African women....
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Afghanistan’s Pedagogy of the Invisible
Perhaps part of the reason it is hard to find girls in Afghan classrooms is because women and girls are hard to find in textbooks? A report produced by the Ministry of Education in 2007 says that...
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In Congo, Women Face Impossible Choice: Risk Rape, or Go Hungry
Ed note. This is a special guest post from Marcy Hersh of Refugees International. Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo – What is something that you do no less than ten times every day? Check email? Send...
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Why Hillary Clinton Was an Excellent Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton was arguably the highest profile and most politically powerful Secretary of State in recent history. She commanded a domestic constituency in the United States. Around the world she was...
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Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
Today, February 6 marks the 10th annual Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. It’s an awful thing to have to commemorate. According to the World Health Organization, about 140 million...
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Map of the Day: Where Girls Marry Younger Than Boys
Today’s map of the day comes from Children’s Chances. It shows the differences in the minimum age to legally marry between boys and girls. As you can see, there are dozens of countries in which girls...
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UN: Number of Afghan Women Targeted for Assassination Jumps Three Fold
For the first time since the United Nations began tracking civilian casulties in Afghanistan, the number of civilain casulties declined last year. The news, though, is not all good–or even remotely so....
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Commission on Status of Women Kicks Off
Ed note. I am pleased to welcome Amanda Sperber to UN Dispatch. Amanda works at GroundSource and writes about media, social unrest and representations of distant others. The 57th Commission on the...
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