Women

Women play distinctive and active roles in extremist groups. Yet so far, law enforcement has failed to understand gender dynamics within these groups. The failure makes the United…

Securing equality in foreign policy and national security means implementing requirements and ensuring they apply to all government decision-making.

Their experience shows that overdue answers--and justice for all victims--requires international action to break the seal that protects the military.

Families are being affirmed in public policy while simultaneously being targeted in security practice.

The push to protect women and girls in conflict and involve women in security decision-making increases attention to human rights in military operations.

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

The pandemic could compel a new standard for national security employees and a push to improve consistent family-leave and dependent care policies, and increase workplace flexibility.

The Biden administration should use the March gathering to highlight policies or programs to advance gender equality at home and abroad.

UN entities that support and enable counterterrorism, including in cooperation with the Kingdom, must ensure such abuses end.

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.

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…