Delighted to be able to attend CSW in New York this year. Our UN Women-USA board convened a panel on Providing Social Services and Protection to Women and Girls in Conflict Zones and hosted an evening reception for fellow national committees. And at Dining For Women’s...
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February 12-15, 2019. Speaking on the role of the United Nations Today and Education in Africa at the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs.
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Can a ‘panic button’ on a phone really help deter violence in India? Last April India’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, announced the government’s order that by 2018 all phones include a panic button and GPS. And this...
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February 12 – 15, 2019, the St Petersburg World Affairs Conference will be back! I’ll be speaking on the role of UN – watch here for more details and schedule.
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July 2018 This is Namita who studied with me all the time I was in India. She eventually went out on her own and is now working in a call center in Gurgaon. We got together when I was back in July. She has grown to be a delightful young woman. Sister Suja (right) was...
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Some reflections for the tumultuous time that is America today. This is not an overnight, temporary crisis. We are entering a period of full-on internal warfare: another generation is about to find their days, their lives, marked by demonstrations, activism, and...
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