The Metro NY chapter of UN Women introduced their Champions of Change campaign at the chapter’s 30th-anniversary celebration in October 2017. They have now selected their 2018 Champions of Change – people who have ...read more

The UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. A key feature of the ...read more

In the episode of Women’s Media Centre Live aired on November 5th, 2017, host Robin Morgan spoke with Shazia ...read more

Last week President Donald Trump announced to a dismayed world that the United States was “leaving” the Paris Agreement—the most important global accord to mitigate climate change. This announcement is the latest ...read more

President Trump announced recently to a baffled world that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Or in his own inimitable words, “we are leaving, …we will renegotiate a better deal… ...read more

Global feminism hit a concrete ceiling in 2016. The first woman U.S. major-party presidential candidate was unable to rally votes in enough states across the country for her election despite an incompetent, openly racist ...read more

As the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opens this week, the world has a chance to truly accelerate the Women, Peace and Security agenda by urging the heads of government of countries on the UN Security Council to ...read more

This is an English language translation of Una mujer para la Secretaría General, by Shazia Rafi. On 13 October 2015, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey addressed the Security Council as President. “Gender ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Al-Ahram Weekly In November, the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly will hone in on the next UN secretary-general. All states, including Egypt, have a chance ...read more