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14th October 2020

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by Matt Field

British Diplomat

Visible Women

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made” (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) The campaign for local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina is about to begin. While there are many things we do not yet know about how those elections will run, we can be confident that women – as candidates, as decision-makers, and as […]

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6th March 2020 Skopje, North Macedonia

Kristina Hadzi Vasileva

Kristina Hadzi Vasileva

Managing Director at Strategic Development Consulting and Chevening Scholar

8 March – How far have we come?

The first week of March is always so intense for me. Not that there are no such other weeks during the year (family birthdays, new years’, vacation preparations..). Yet during the first week of March everyone and anyone suddenly remembers us, women. Flowers are sold on improvised stalls of cardboard boxes on every corner, presents […]

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4th December 2018 Skopje, North Macedonia

How much is enough – can we end violence against women in Macedonia?

Changing the statistics by raising awareness: as part of the global conversations in these #16DaysofActivism to raise awareness to end the gender based violence, we have asked Marija Bashevska, gender equality advocate to tell us what kind of effort is needed to end violence against women. Marija is currently president of the think-tank Reactor-Reasearh in Action in Macedonia. She is […]

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20th June 2017 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

In praise of peahens

One of the more amusing oddities that comes with going to the UN is having meetings interrupted by the screams of the peacocks that wander freely outside. It often seems like the vicarious expression of the feelings of those of us trapped inside for hours on end, arguing over any number of things that really […]

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8th March 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Lucy Woods

Lucy Woods

Defence Attache Assistant

Step it up for gender mainstreaming in defence

Today we are marking International Women’s Day. It is usually the day when we are reminded that women are today represented in a multitude of fields: community builders and advisers, soldiers, diplomats, homemakers, doctors, analysts and officials. Different countries have different policies and different gender representation, but there are some issues which are shared topics […]

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2nd November 2015 Geneva, Switzerland

by Julian Braithwaite

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

What can the United Nations learn from the women who’ve made it?

Last week was the Week of Women in Britain. A British news magazine went as far as running a front page saying that the battle for feminism had been won, and it it was time to move on. But has it, really? I was good at biology at school. But I kept on coming second […]

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