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UN Report: U.S. Women and the new Peacebuilding Commission
September 2006 | Click here to read full report.
by Sayre Sheldon, WAND representative on the NGO Working Group for Women, Peace and Security

Humanitarian crisis has followed humanitarian crisis around the world and our press is flooded with images of women and children victims of bombing or other forms of wartime violence. It almost seems as if conditions for women were getting worse. From our more fortunate place as U.S. women, we feel helpless in the face of so much suffering. This is when we turn to the United Nations: will they alert the world, enlist the NGO’s, find the funding, go out and alleviate these desperate situations? For most U.S. citizens, this is what we think the U.N. does and what we count on it to do.

UN Security Council Mission to Sudan
June 2006
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On the occasion of the United Nations Security Council’s Mission to Sudan, the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (NGOWG) would like to express its alarm at the worsening situation for civilians in Darfur, Sudan - especially those who have been displaced as a result of continued violence. The NGOWG is gravely concerned by the widespread and systematic perpetration of rape on women and girls.

The UN and U.S. Women
July 2005
by Sayre Sheldon, WAND president emerita
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Yes, Virginia, there is an international women’s movement; and much of it comes from the United Nations. Why don’t we hear more about it? Because we in the United States don’t tend to look much beyond our borders for social change. And because we have an administration which prefers to act alone and especially finds it hard to acknowledge the importance of the UN.