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WAND
and the UN |
UN
Reports from WAND
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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. |
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UN
Security Council Mission to Sudan
June 2006
Click
here to read the full press release.
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. |
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The
UN and U.S. Women
July 2005
by Sayre Sheldon, WAND president emerita
Click
here to read the full report.
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. |
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WAND
delegate to the UN reports back on NPT
conference
from
WAND President Emerita Sayre Sheldon,
May 5, 2005
For
the full report, click
here. |
Today
we face a world where the nuclear nations have
barely budged in their promise to cut their arsenals,
or their dependency on nuclear weapons as part
of their military strategies. Meanwhile, small
countries that are condemned as "rogue"
nations by the U.S., and that look at the example
of our invasion of Iraq with fear, are working
on nuclear programs of their own. The
U.S. under George W. Bush has repudiated almost
all arms control measures, including nuclear non-proliferation,
and worse, threatens to build and test new nuclear
weapons. WAND was a leader in defeating
these bunker busters and mini-nukes in the last
Congress; now we are fighting them again. |
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