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Iran, Saudi Arabia Run for U.N. Women’s Board

By Amy Lieberman ● Politics ● November 10, 2010

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the countries on the list for today’s elections to the 41-member executive board of the U.N.’s new super agency for women. Some critics say countries that allow death by stoning should be disqualified.

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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.

Bachelet’s U.N. Debut Brightens MDG Summit

By Amy Lieberman ● Politics ● September 24, 2010

Funding commitments for global maternal health, the most lagging U.N. Millennium Development Goal, were predictably disappointing this week. But Michelle Bachelet’s first appearance as head of the women’s “superagency” raised some spirits.

U.N. to Ask $169 Billion Maternal Health Question

By Amy Lieberman ● Politics ● September 17, 2010

The U.N.’s $169 billion catch-up plan for global maternal health–the runt of the development-goal litter–faces a final checkup meeting in New York this week. As a maternal death clock tick-tocks in Times Square, the big question is money.

Welfare Job Rules Hit Women With Disabilities

By Anna Limontas-Salisbury ● Employment ● August 31, 2010

Petra Rodriguez lost her welfare benefits when she injured her back and couldn’t keep her welfare work assignment. A Legal Aid lawyer says situations like hers help explain why the rolls have dropped–people are just discouraged from applying.

MDG Goals Panned for Isolating Women’s Rights

By Amy Lieberman ● Politics ● August 4, 2010

The 10-year checkup on the U. N. Millennium Development Goals is coming up in September. Ahead of that meeting, civil society groups are editing an outcome document with an eye to ending the segregated treatment of women’s rights.

Papua New Guinea Apologizes for CEDAW Record

By Regina Varolli ● Politics ● July 30, 2010

Papua New Guinea came to New York in July to face a U.N. inspection of its recent record on women’s rights. A critical panel highlighted murders of women accused of sorcery and witchcraft and the chair of the delegation apologized for the country’s poor record.