The Commission on the Status of Women Has Concluded. What was accomplished? A UN Dispatch Q and A Coby Jones March 25, 2018The 62nd annual Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) concluded at the United Nations in New York City last week. Tens of thousands of advocates and policy makers from all around the world gathered at the Uni...
Amid the #MeToo Moment, Leaders Gather at the UN for the World’s Largest Meeting on Gender Equality Coby Jones March 14, 2018The 62nd annual Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) kicked off at the United Nations in New York City this week. Tens of thousands of women from all around the world are be gathering at the United Nations f...
Will Ireland Join 133 Other Countries Where Abortion is Legal? Coby Jones February 15, 2018The Prime Minister of Ireland recently announced that he will be campaigning to end the constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland. Ireland is the only country in the European Union that does not allow abortion ...
Here’s How Every Country in the World Ranks on Gender Equality Coby Jones January 9, 2018On January 1st, 2018, Iceland became the first country in the world to make pay inequality illegal. Companies that cannot prove pay equality will be fined close to $500 a day that the gap continues to exist. ...
An Indian Court Decision Takes One Step in the Right Direction for the Rights of Women Coby Jones October 20, 2017Last week, a two-man bench of the Indian Supreme Court ruled that sex with any underage girl, regardless of whether she is married or not, would be considered an act of rape.This ruling, in a country with t...
Countries are Getting Rid of their “Marry the Rapist” Laws Coby Jones August 23, 2017Lebanon recently became the latest Arab state to repeal laws on the books that allowed rapists to escape punishment...if they married their victims.Lebanon follows Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia which h...
What The Saga of the Afghanistan Girls Robotics Team Can Teach Us About Girls Education Worldwide Coby Jones July 19, 201716 years ago, a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan could not even exist. During the brutal rule of the Taliban, Afghan girls were not allowed formal education. At all.Yesterday, a team of Afghan girls wh...
Every day 41,000 girls are married under the age of 18. A new World Bank report shows the economic impact of this problem Coby Jones July 12, 2017Can you imagine what it would be like to be married at the age of 15? Married before you have finished high school, before you’re allowed to drive a car, drink, or vote? Every day, for 41,000 girls around the w...
A new UN report just calculated the percentage of women who can’t find work because of sexism Coby Jones June 21, 2017Do women participate in the workforce at the same rate as men? No, they don’t.Globally, the workforce participation rate for women is 49.4 percent, which is 26.7 percentage points below the global participa...
