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Making Women Equal Economic Partners – Closing the Nation’s Gender Based Pay Gap
Women in the U.S. have made tremendous gains in education, employment and earnings in the past 50 years, but there is still a persistent gender pay gap. Even young working women continue to lag behind men. And, unfortunately, the gap … Read more
We Can Stop Violence Against Women
A 4 year-old girl died recently from cardiac arrest at Care Hospital in Nagpur, India after being raped by a 35 year old man, Firoz Khan. He was later apprehended by police and confessed to the crime. The girl was … Read more
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Tagged child rape in India, gender equality, gender inequlity, top, top story, violence against women
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Ending Violence Against Women – Are We Finally at a Tipping Point?
Recently, in a crime that shocked South Africa, 17-year-old Anene Booysen was brutally gang raped. Her throat was slit; her fingers and legs shattered. The attackers had stuck a broken glass bottle inside her body and left her for dead … Read more
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Tagged Anene Booysen, featured, Kamla Bhasin, One Man Can, violence against women, Zubeida Shaik
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Palestine’s Membership at the International Criminal Court: What It Could Mean for Israel
Introduction With Resolution A/67/L.28 on the Status of Palestine at the United Nations having been passed with an overwhelming majority at the General Assembly on November 29, 2012, the Palestinian Authority’s status has been upgraded from a United Nations permanent … Read more
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Tagged International Criminal Court, Israel-Palestine conflict, Palestinian statehood
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Finding a Measure of Peace
Can we measure the peacefulness of the world? And beyond that, estimate the impact of conflict on the global economy? On first consideration, these seem like impossible tasks. After all, the drivers of human conflict are varied and complex. But … Read more
The Vote for Palestinian Statehood – More Than Symbolic?
The UN General Assembly voted on November 29, 2012, to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority from United Nations permanent observer entity to that of a non-member observer state. One question looms large over this historic UN General Assembly … Read more
Can Gaza and Israel Make the Tough Choice for Peace?
For now, no more missiles fly from Gaza to Israel – nor from Israel to Gaza. The last several days of mutual-retaliation is now at its end. I will not re-post here what can be read widely in the news: … Read more
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Goodness Prevails in Our Stories of Hope and Hardship
On November 3rd, over 1,300 Rotarians, UN officials, representatives from worldwide international development organizations and guests gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to explore ways to advance world peace, conflict prevention and resolution. This annual event … Read more
War for Peace: The Moral and Legal Case for Intervention in Syria
Over the past 19 months, the people of Syria have risen up against a regime that for over four decades has denied its people basic rights and freedoms. In response to demonstrations and protests, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has … Read more
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