By Jelke Boesten Since the late 1990s, the international community has developed treaties and tools to address conflict-related sexual violence. Most recently, the UK government...
By Jolynn Shoemaker As political pundits and campaigns ramp up for the 2014 midterm elections, the media is focusing again on the female vote and...
by Kelsey L. Campbell Its hard to believe, but Women’s History Month 2014 has come to an end. The March news cycle was dominated by...
By Kayla Williams In the lead-up to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the law that barred gay and lesbian troops from serving openly...
In honor of International Women’s Day, we have asked some members of the Women In International Security Advisory Board to share their thoughts on this...
By Sarah E. Orndorff As I discovered while interning during the summer of 2013 at the Roza Otunbayeva Initiative*, a non-profit foundation in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,...
Qursum Qasim Women in conflict-affected areas do not have the luxury of debating the relative happiness and fulfillment quotients of homemakers or breadwinners – self-preservation...
Nina Kontevska For the past two years, Egypt has been stuck in a protracted, tough post-revolutionary transition phase that is bound to last a while...
Mary Manjikian For the past two months, British newspaper readers have been riveted by the sage of Vicky Price and Chris Huhne. Here’s the story...
The debate about career advancement and women in the workplace has recently been re-ignited by Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg's book “Lean In.” The WIIS blog...