Melanne Verveer

Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security. She served as the first U.S. ambassador for global women’s issues and helped develop the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. She also served as the former special representative on gender issues for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe chairperson-in-office.

Articles by Melanne Verveer

Afghan women protest against a new Taliban ban on women accessing university education in Kabul.

How the World Can Help Afghan Women Now

Argument

Shaharzad Akbar, Melanne Verveer

August 14, 2023, 9:50 AM

A roundtable discussion is held with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on the U.S. strategy for implementing the Women, Peace, and Security Act, on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2019.

With the Women, Peace, and Security Act, Washington Could Be a Model for the World

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Jamille Bigio, Melanne Verveer

July 22, 2020, 4:10 PM

A woman holds white balloons during a demonstration to demand the endorsement of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Bogota on Nov. 30. (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images)

Women Are the Key to Peace

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Melanne Verveer, Anjali Dayal

November 8, 2018, 2:44 PM

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Where Women Are Leading the Peace

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Melanne Verveer

September 30, 2015, 11:24 AM

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Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue

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Melanne Verveer

April 23, 2012, 3:00 AM

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