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Reaching the MDGs, one garden at a time
Alexandra Earl, UNIC PretoriaThe first Millennium Development Goal is “The Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger”. The global food crisis which was exacerbated in 2008 has seen the number of people...
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Development aid and environmental sustainability: a case from Argentina
Alessandra Devitofrancesco, UNRIC BrusselsWhen I arrived in Buenos Aires in 2006, the conflict around the Uruguay River pulp mills had been going on for a year. A diplomatic crisis between Argentina...
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Agents of development: How migrants contribute to achieving the MDGs
Saskia Koppenberg, EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative, Brussels Despite the evident links between migration and development, migration does not feature explicitly in the MDGs. However, in...
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Youth and development in Nigeria
Ify Ogo, UNIC LagosWith 150 million people, Nigeria has the largest population in Africa. Nestled between the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Cameroon, with its southernmost states lying on the...
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One year after the last issue of Internal Voices, I am delighted to be writing the Editorial for the 11th edition. First of all let me thank the Editorial Team and all those who have contributed to...
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Act like a Lady: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World
UN PhotoChristopher HerwigMariah Mercer, UNIC, Canberra, AustraliaNowadays, there are less than 20 female world leaders out of more than 200. Although there are more women in governments today than...
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Women’s dignity in Italy: No rose without thorns
UN Photo/x Maria Elena Penzo, UNRIC BrusselsThroughout history, women have been denied civil, political and economic rights. In a world where words as democracy and rights are used daily, it seems...
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Looking Beyond Social Media: Emerging Media Practices that Contribute to...
UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras Alexandra Jacobs,UN Association of the National Capital Area, Washington DCIn the past two years, authoritarian regimes around the world have been challenged, if not toppled...
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Beyond Microfinance
Karinna Berrospi, UNIC Washington DCGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese ProverbThe idea of micro financing was based on a wish...
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A Life Free of Violence against Women and Girls: Engaging men and boys
UN WOMENMarine Smeets, UN WOMEN Brussels“(...) Just as the black movement cannot be left solely to black people, women’s struggle cannot be left solely to women.”Boaventura de Souza Santos (2002...
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Defining Women
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein. Gautier de Bosredon, UNRIC Brussels“Men have presumed to create a female domain” Simone de BeauvoirA person’s identity is defined according to his or her relationship to...
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Linking Gender to Environment in European Union Development Policies and...
UN Photo/x Julian Kirchher, UNEP Brussels Within European public opinion as well as the European Union’s (EU) policy agenda, gender and environment have gained momentum: In the latest Eurobarometer,...
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Muslim women: Democracies against the veil
UN Photo/Luke PowellAna Patricia Carvalho, UNRIC Brussels“No woman should be forced to wear religious apparel by her community or family. Nobody should be forced to go to any kind of house of prayer....
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A history of violence: The evolution of gendered crimes in international law
UN Photo/Louise GubbLeoni Ayoub, UNRIC Brussels“For most of history,Anonymous was woman” Virginia Woolf The evolution and effect of emerging theories of gendered crimes within the international legal...
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Growing Equality: Women’s Empowerment through Small-Scale Agriculture
UN Photo/Martine PerretSara Draper-Zivetz, World Food Program, USAWhat is empowerment? Suggested in the term is a fundamental shift in the status quo, in which a person or group typically oppressed by...
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Sex trafficking – are states responsible for violating core human rights of...
UNICEFMiriam Aced, UNRWATrafficking in human beings (THB), an age-old crime, has received increased media attention in the last decade. THB violates a host of core human rights and it is also one of...
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Employing Technology to Empower Women: Improving Access to Maternal Health Care
UN Photo/John Isaac Jenna Gustafson, UNIC Washington DC As an intern at the United Nations Information Centre in Washington DC, I am sent to cover a variety of events around the city on a regular...
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MIGRATING WOMEN: An anonymous group
UN Photo/UNHCR/A. Duclos Mary-Sanyu Osire, International Organization for MigrationWith “Madam,” Amiina calls out to the Caucasian lady who...
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ALGERIA: WOMEN RIGHTS LEFT FOR DEAD?
UN Photo/Martine Perret Marion Ouldboukhitine, UNRIC Brussels For many years, more and more women driven by poverty have been flocking to...
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Dealing with Domestic Violence in Angola: Facts and reasons
UN Photo/Martine PerretMauro Santos, UNRIC BrusselsThe United Nations define violence against women as any act of gender based violence that results in, or is...
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Gender Biases in Sudanese Education
UN PhotoAlbert Gonzalez FarranKathryn Breitenborn, UNIC Washington DC On January 9th 2011 the people in South Sudan voted for a separation of the country. The referendum provoked a big debate: what...
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Editorial 12th Edition
UN/MARTINE PERRET Robin de Wouters - Editor, UNRIC BrusselsWomen represent more or less half the world population… And yet, they have constantly been oppressed, discriminated, segregated, considered of...
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Editorial 13th Edition
Read or download the 13th edition here As you may have noticed, this edition of Internal Voices not only has a new topic, but also a completely remodeled template, as well as a brand new website. All...
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Editorial 14th Edition
It is my first day as an intern at the United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels. My supervisor, Fred, is giving me a tour of the office, introducing me to the multinational team and...
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Tackling urban slums: The bottom-up approach
Laura Kirk and Pavel Potekhin, UN HABITAT New York The reduction of slum populations is an important issue affecting almost one billion people globally. In order to formalize the UN approach towards...
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