Arshi Qureshi
Arshi Qureshi is a freelance journalist based in New York City, focusing on politics and social issues. She holds a master's degree in political journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism.
During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in late September, calls grew louder than ever for the world body to finally appoint a woman as secretary-general. For eight decades, the UN’s top post has been held exclusively by men. …
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, Women
Iraq’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in November, and though the country has a new women-led political party, al-Mawadda — meaning, loosely, “affection” or “solidarity” in Arabic — it will not be contesting them officially. After more than …
- Categories: Middle East, Women
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, is arguably the organization’s most outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. An Italian international-law scholar appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2022, Albanese has …
- Categories: Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, UN Agencies
Nearly 21 months into Israel’s war on the Hamas militia in Gaza, the densely populated strip remains under siege. Since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on southern Israel, triggering a devastating retaliation, Gaza’s landscape and society …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The practice of female genital mutilation is mostly associated with dozens of countries in Africa and the Mideast, but the reality is that millions of women and girls in some 94 countries are victimized by it every year. This includes …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
Melissa Parke is a soft-spoken anti-nukes activist from Australia who advocates for the elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide. Her bullhorn is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a Geneva-based civil society group that she leads in the …
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament
Finland, once a model for reconciling the demands of work and family life, is grappling with a rapidly declining birth rate amid a growing desire by adults to remain child-free. Despite generous parental-leave policies, high-quality child care, free education and …
- Categories: Women
Iraqi lawmakers’ proposal to amend the country’s family law and grant religious courts the authority to legalize marriages for underage girls is being pushed by the country’s Shiite parliamentary factions as part of their appeal to conservative voters ahead of …
- Categories: Human Rights, Women
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