OSF Director Invited to Speak at the OSCE holds an Expert Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming in Operational Responses to Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT), in Vienna, November 22-23, 2016
Preventing Extremism by Promoting Rights, Peace and Pluralism: International Civil Society Action Network and the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership convenes 5th Annual Forum in Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 11-15, 2016
Sahana Dharmapuri, senior advisor for One Earth Future’s program, Our Secure Future, advocates for more women serving as U.N. peacekeepers as one way to decrease the incidence of sexual violence and exploitation at the hands of those trusted to keep the peace in conflict zones.
U.S. News and World Report interviewed Our Secure Future Director, Sahana Dharmapuri, about the impact of female U.N. peacekeepers and the prevention of sexual violence in conflict zones. This article sheds light on one of the many reasons women’s participation in peacekeeping is essential to any p...
