UN Dispatch caught up with Assistant Secretary-General for Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships at UN Women Lakshmi Puri. We spoke after an International Women's Day event hosted by the UN Foundation in Washington, DC.
While the backlash against expanded rights and freedoms for Afghan women has been gathering momentum in recent years, so too have efforts to create greater opportunities for women in Afghan society. Part 2 of my 2-part look at what's at stake for women a decade into the international intervention.
Afghan women are again at the center of a volatile national debate over whether basic rights and freedoms should be extended to the female half of the population. Part 1 of a 2-part look at what's at stake.
We have a suite of posts in store to commemorate the occasion. We will kick off the festivities here on UN Dispatch with two items from our friends at the UN Foundation and one excellent list from Women Deliver.
President Obama today signed an executive order to mandate the implementation of a sweeping new US government plan to include women in peacemaking and security roles around the world. I talk to an expert who helped craft this policy about what she hopes it will accomplish.