Advancing Gender Equality at Home and Abroad by Leveraging Women, Peace, and Security Getty/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
A protester looks toward the White House following the Women s March in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2018.
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Fact Sheet: Recommendations for Advancing Gender Equality at Home and Abroad by Leveraging Women, Peace, and Security
The Gender Policy Council should include the following recommendations in its governmentwide strategy to ensure it can fully leverage and expand the U.S. government’s existing women, peace, and security mandate and architecture. Read the fact sheet
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President Joe Biden marked International Women’s Day this year by issuing an executive order (EO) establishing a White House Gender Policy Council.
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At the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), June 21 – July 14, the United States pushed forward on priority issues as an observer state while actively pursuing election to the Council for the 2022-2024 term. We continued to model the integrity we intend to bring to Council leadership, recognizing that we are most credible and effective in our international engagement when we remain forthright about our own human rights struggles. During HRC 47, the United States helped advance resolutions, joint statements, and interventions responding to dire human rights situations.
Countering Systemic Racism: Building off the U.S.-led joint statement on racial justice at HRC 46, the United States looks forward to cooperating with a new mechanism on systemic racism to advance racial justice and equality in the context of law enforcement. We welcome the High Commissioner’s report underscoring that systemic racism demands a syste
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A COMMENT by a UK-based friend during a trip was that women in Pakistan were few and far between a normal state of affairs for those who live here although some of us have noticed women missing from offices, shops, markets, mosques, streets, parks, dhabas or from positions of authority. They are not seen in policymaking fora or foreign delegations. They are missing from schools and the teaching profession.
Globally, societies are assessed through indicators that measure economic aspects, intellectual progress, social conditions, living standards and other factors to determine how human beings fare. The Human Development Index (HDI) is one indicator that measures health, education and income levels in all countries. An adjustment for gender inequality, measuring health, empowerment and labour market for both women and men produces the Gender Inequality Index (GII).
Gloomy future for Afghans as ‘forever war’ ends
04 May 2021 US Marines board a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft headed to Kandahar as British and US forces withdraw from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck complex in Helmand province. File/Agence France-Presse
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Associated Press
After 20 years, America is ending its “forever war” in Afghanistan. Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the US military, over whether the time was right. Starting Saturday, the last remaining 2,500 to 3,500 American troops began leaving, to be fully out by Sept. 11 at the latest.
Another debate will likely go on far longer: Was it worth it?