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Four experts identify the greatest challenges facing women peacebuilders and peacekeepers and discuss how, despite slow progress and bias against women, those challenges can be overcome.
To combat sexual harassment in public spaces, the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, is sending out all-female police squads. They’re taking a very different approach to the “anti-Romeo” squads in neighboring Uttar Pradesh, which gained a reputation for harassing couples.
Camilla Bognoe Transnational Threats Department, OSCE
In order to tackle violent extremism, women must be better represented in the security sector – including at the highest levels, says Camilla Bognoe of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Mariam Safi is one of just a handful of researchers focusing on the role of women in post-conflict peace building in Afghanistan. As part of our “Women and Jihad” series, she tells us about the pivotal role women can play in combating the Taliban.
Some 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient malnutrition, with consequences that include cognitive delays, weakened immunity and increased risk for birth defects. Food fortification is one low-cost solution – and it’s already working.
Saba Ismail had her lightbulb moment when her cousin was forced to marry a much older man. Now the organization she co-founded, Aware Girls, is helping young women in Pakistan become agents of social change.
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