John Tierney has written a terrific piece for City Journal puncturing the myth of male privilege. By almost every metric, he points out, women in contemporary western societies are faring better than men.
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The Security Council began meeting in its chamber this month, complete with plastic dividers, for the first time since the pandemic started: Nicolas de Rivière, France’s ambassador, left, and Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s envoy, right, Oct. 15, 2020. ESKINDER DEBEBE/UN PHOTO
In October 2015, the Security Council held a debate on women, peace and security to review the status of Resolution 1325, which was adopted on Oct. 31, 2000, to recognize the effects of war on women and built on the 1995 Beijing conference for gender equality. The essay’s experts map how the visions of the Beijing conference have been integrated into US foreign policy but the fact is, gender equality remains elusive globally. AMANDA VOISARD/UN PHOTO
Participants in the Windhoek Seminar, held in May 2000, from left: Former SRSG-UNMIBH Elisabeth Rehn; then-Namibian Minister for Women Affairs H.E. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah; author and UNMIK speaker Nina Lahoud; former SRSG-UNAVEM II and chair Margaret Anstee.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada speaking remotely at the UN’s event on financing the Sustainable Development Goals amid Covid-19. Secretary-General António Guterres, right, Sept. 29, 2020. The authors of this essay say that to build the post-pandemic planet, nations and people must understand the need for solidarity and humility to master the challenges ahead. ESKINDER DEBEBE/UN PHOTO
The world order is no more.
Anna Evstigneeva, the new deputy ambassador at the Russian mission to the UN. She is the first woman to have that role there, although she worked at the mission, including as a political coordinator, from 2011 to 2016. She began her diplomatic career in Oslo. JOHN PENNEY
President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica wore a mask during his entire video speech to the UN General Assembly high-level debate this year. Of 190 leaders who spoke, only 9 were women. JOHN PENNEY
Vice President Epsy Campbell Barr of Costa Rica. She was among the numerous women vice presidents from Latin America who spoke at the UN’s Beijing+25 commemoration on Oct. 1.
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, who is from the Netherlands, has led the UN political mission in Iraq for nearly two years. The mission includes two women deputies, one from Britain and the other from Germany. A new academic dashboard will track the UN’s executive appointments overall. UNAMI
In Bamako, Mali, women waiting to have their babies vaccinated. Jane Roberts, a Californian who personally helped fund-raise millions of dollars for the UN Population Fund, traveled to Mali and elsewhere in West Africa to understand women’s needs better in the region. UNFPA
In the rubble of what’s left of American commitments to international organizations, one survivor is doing well. The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, the perennial target of Republican politicians and presidents since the 1980s, is thriving.
