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UN Told Iraq’s Hidden Women’s Shelters in Jeopardy

By Tricia Taormina & Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● October 19, 2015

An Iraqi women’s rights advocate is asking the U.N. Security Council to pressure her government to change its laws about women in the civil-war torn state, including removing obstacles for those operating shelters for women fleeing ISIS.

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Global Goals Put Women at Heart of Poverty Battle

By Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● October 1, 2015

But how successful will the new U.N. framework be in raising global living standards? Enthusiasts put faith in technological innovations. Skeptics say the global economic system is inherently exploitive and unjust and needs a real overhaul.

Women’s Treaty Trying Local Doors to U.S. Senate

By Miranda S. Spivack & Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● June 25, 2015

The District of Columbia is planning to hold hearings on whether to include CEDAW in its Human Rights Act. CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is a major U.N. treaty the U.S. has yet to sign.

Obama Pressed to Act on Post-Rape Abortion Aid

By Por Alison Bowen ● Crime & Law ● June 4, 2015

Religious and human rights advocates are calling on Obama on June 4 to take executive action to ensure access to abortion for women and girls raped in conflict. “We know he is listening,” says one organizer.

UN Sex Violence Envoy: Focusing on Syria, Iraq

By Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● May 28, 2015

The U.N.’s special representative on sex violence in conflict zones answers questions about the spread of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage as a strategy of war and tactic of terror in the Middle East, particularly by the Islamic State, or Daesh.

Dina Kawar: UN Needs More Female Peacekeepers

By Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● May 19, 2015

The first Arab woman to serve as president of the U.N. Security Council, Dina Kawar talks to Women’s eNews about the U.N.’s role in protecting women in conflict, as well as female Syrian refugees in Jordan.

For Victims of Wartime Rape, Abortion Out of Reach

By Por Alison Bowen ● Crime & Law ● April 28, 2015

Here’s what one Kenyan woman says about being forced to carry through a pregnancy that resulted from a rape during a conflict period. Obama could end such suffering by clarifying that U.S. law actually does allow abortion funding in such circumstances, a health activist says.