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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi Leadership Is Hobbled

By Stephanie Guyer-Stevens ● Employment ● November 24, 2010

Widespread elation met the week-ago release of Aung San Suu Kyi after her 20-year house arrest. But in the political trenches another pro-democracy woman worries about how much leadership Suu Kyi will be able to provide.

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Women Maimed by Landmines Need to Be Heard by UN

By Monica Piloya ● Crime & Law ● November 23, 2010

Women wounded by landmines experience social isolation, sexual violence and discrimination. This week’s landmine meeting in Geneva must remember our special needs, track our numbers and count us in.

This Veterans Day, Help a Woman Come Home

By Paula J. Caplan ● Politics ● November 5, 2010

Psychologist Paula J. Caplan has written a play about a character who might say something about all female vets. She has complicated emotions and thinks she’s going crazy. But she’s not. She just needs attention to her painful secrets.

Women’s Big Power Struggle Now Lurks Within

By Gloria Feldt ● Employment ● October 8, 2010

It’s time for women to seize the clout that is now available to them, Gloria Feldt argues in this excerpt from her new book, “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power.”

U.N. Seeks Congo Rapists; Congolese Urges War’s End

By Amy Lieberman ● Employment ● September 30, 2010

The U.N.’s Wallstrom is visiting the DRC two months after armed soldiers gang raped hundreds of women. While she’s there, focused on identifying perpetrators, a leading women’s activist from Goma is in the U.S. pressing a different strategy.

Backers Say Warren Has Time to Make Her Mark

By Sharon Johnson ● Crime & Law ● September 20, 2010

Obama’s temporary appointment of Elizabeth Warren as startup head of Wall Street’s consumer regulatory group is seen as a way of circumnavigating her political foes. But onlookers say she has time to make her mark and help Obama on Nov. 2

Congo Rapes Put U.N.’s Wallstrom in Hot Seat

By Amy Lieberman ● Employment ● August 26, 2010

Margot Wallstrom, U.N. envoy on sexual violence in conflict, was slow to learn of mass rapes in the DRC in July, which were carried out despite U.N. peacekeeping patrols. Now her first task as leader of the U.N.’s response is finding out exactly what happened.