Gender and security

The Trump administration damaged the annual report's credibility. It is critical to rethink the data, especially on women and girls.

Proponents risk legitimizing abusive laws and procedures and undermining broader efforts to advance equality and human rights protection for women.

Civil society fights hard to be heard above the din of war, displacement, political dysfunction and the ebbs and flows of international aid.

An initiative by professors Maryam Jamshidi and Emily Berman.

Two decades after the landmark UN resolution, the rise of authoritarianism and extreme rightist ideologies have generated backlash against gender equality and the idea of involving…

The president and his officials take many actions diametrically opposed to these plans. But Congress and civil society can keep the pressure on.

In this essay for Just Security, the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and Mexico’s Legal Adviser outline the government’s priorities when it becomes…

The guidelines respond to troubling past practices that made investigations ineffective, re-traumatizing, unnecessarily duplicative, and a security risk.

It omits a key type of violation and fails to account for the power structures that enable multiple forms of sexual violence and abuse.

The US too often views its work on fragile or failed states as "fixing" various sectors, without enough focus on the political dynamics underneath.

Imagine a global security structure based on principles of cooperation, human security, pragmatism, transparency, and inclusivity.

Looking at the failure of male-dominated conflict resolution processes from Afghanistan and South Sudan to Venezuela and Burma, the meaningful engagement of women in international…