A new UNHCR report reveals that over 145,000 Syrian refugee families in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq are headed by women alone. UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres paid a visit to Awah, who is raising her children on her own in Amman. Explore Woman Alone “Syrian refugee women are the glue holding together a broken society. Their strength is extraordinary, but they are struggling alone. Their voices are an appeal for help and protection which cannot be ignored.” Keep up … [Read more...]
Ms. Lakshmi Puri – WOMAN of ACTION™
April 11, 2013 by
A Celebration of Women™ has been inspired to Celebrate the Life of yet another woman leader, one that has devoted her career and life to the betterment of others. Working her magic through a career with The United Nations, this powerhouse has promoted the gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda in various capacities in the context of peace and security, human rights and sustainable development and has pursued studies in history, public policy and administration, international … [Read more...]
Seada Vranic ~ WOMAN of ACTION™
December 8, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women™ has been inspired to Celebrate the Life of one of our World's Bravest Women, this journalist takes the journey with Bosnian RAPE SURVIVORS that has chosen to Speak Out! Her Courage is part of a force started within the Bosnian women to Take Action and STOP VIOLENCE in WAR against Women. WOMAN of ACTION™ Seada Vranic Seada Vranic is a journalist who documented over 300 hundred cases of women and men raped, and the locations of … [Read more...]
The Whistleblower: The movie the U.N. would prefer you didn’t see
December 4, 2012 by
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to Hollywood last year to cajole filmmakers and movie stars into making pictures that portray the U.N.'s good works. The Whistleblower, a scathing full-length account of the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia during the late 1990s, is not what he had in mind. The Samuel Goldwyn Films movie, which is due out in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on Aug. 5, stars British actress Rachel Weisz as a U.N. policewoman who stumbles into the sordid … [Read more...]
UN report, sexual violence during conflict, singles out worst offenders
February 24, 2012 by
Special Representative Margot Wallström presents the Secretary-General’s report on conflict-related sexual violence to the Security Council. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine The annual United Nations report documenting conflict-related sexual violence around the world today for the first time names some of the military forces, militia and other armed groups that are suspected of being among the worst offenders.The groups listed in the report include the Lord’s Resistance Army … [Read more...]
UN WOMEN – Jobs
January 30, 2011 by
Jobs Position:Location: Contract: Post Level: Languages: Deadline Start Date: Duration: TOR and application: Project CoordinatorSarajevo, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Service contract SB-5 Bosnian and English 7 February 2011 1 March 2011 1 year with possibility for extension http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=21305 Position: Location: Contract: Languages: Deadline Start Date: Duration: TOR and application: Local Consultant for Support and … [Read more...]
Cervical Cancer Prevention Campaign Kicks Off in the Western Balkans
January 27, 2011 by
JANUARY is ... Cervical Cancer Prevention Month SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Although it is preventable and treatable, cervical cancer continues to be a major killer of women. Caused by sexually-acquired infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer claims the lives of more than 270,000 women every year, most of whom (85 per cent) live in developing countries. It is also a major cause of death for women in the Western Balkans. In response, a social mobilization … [Read more...]
Bosnia: Legacy of Sexual Violence
December 13, 2010 by
Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence in Bosnia The war in Bosnia was the first time the United Nations had been faced with mass rape as a weapon of war. Fifteen years after the Dayton Accords peace agreement, Sophie Arie talks to doctors in Sarajevo and discovers a culture of denial. 13 December 2010 In the summer of 1992, Sreko Simic, one of Bosnia’s leading gynaecologists, worked without electricity, anaesthetics, or oxygen and with only a skeleton staff, to keep delivering … [Read more...]
