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International relations has had to assume a key role in responding to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. Prior to the pandemic going global, multilateralism had been severely marginalised by isolationist policies and attacks on multi-talented institutions. Diplomacy is often the ability to build networks and to use them maximally when needed. Picking up the phone and calling colleagues for assistance and support may not be part of the political armour provided in training, but for foreign relations it’s an indispensable art. The year 2019 was one that signalled significant practical action ...

Bet on women’s leadership RANDI DAVIS THIS YEAR, International Women’s Day shines the spotlight on women’s leadership and the need for gender equality in a post-covid19 world. Surely the pace of reform is too slow, and we know that the covid19 pandemic is threatening to push us back into the kitchen and even further away from the boardroom. Even before the pandemic, women’s leadership statistics around the world were at best “disappointing.” Despite being 25 years out from the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, women still only account for 25 per cent of the world’s p...

Leave no one behind: How to include Crisis-Affected Populations in the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence Format From March 29-31 women’s rights activists, political decision makers as well as representatives from civil society, international organisations, and the private sector will virtually gather in Mexico for the first of two conferences of the “Generation Equality Forum”. The Forum is a global campaign led by UN Women to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, at which governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensiv...

March 09, 2021 Indian women participate in training providing them with skills, knowledge and confidence to set up their own business or find work. — courtesy UNICEF/Sharron Lovell GENEVA — Exclusion of women in decisions that affect their lives is “bad governance [and] should not be allowed,” the UN Women chief said on Monday, International Women’s Day. “We stand on a crossroads as we ponder the recover from a pandemic that has had a disproportionate impact women and girls,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women said at an event celebratin...

UNITED NATIONS -- Exclusion of women in decisions that affect their lives is bad governance and should not be allowed, the UN Women chief said on Monday, International Women's Day.