oD support open standards:

About Lyric Thompson

Lyric Thompson is a writer and women’s rights advocate.  She is Senior Policy Analyst and External Relations Officer at Women for Women International (WfWI), where she spearheads advocacy and outreach efforts around targeted issues affecting women survivors of war. Her writings on global women’s issues have been published in The Hill, Jurist, Monday Developments, and Newsweek.  Her blog, The Dollhouse Dispatch, features news and analysis of domestic and international gender issues, from the human rights of undocumented workers in the United States to violence against women in Afghanistan. 

Prior to joining WfWI, Lyric worked on USAID-funded conflict mitigation and democratic governance projects in Sudan and Serbia for Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI). .


Articles by Lyric Thompson

Thursday 18th November

War and 1325: principles or diversity checkbox ?

Lyric Thompson, 18 November 2010
Why were women career soldiers, US defense contractors, female peace activists and Pentagon officials talking to each other in Washington DC ? Lyric Thompson reports on a most unusual conversation...
Friday 29th October

Civil society diplomats at the UN

Lyric Thompson, 29 October 2010
" We’re not interested in making war safe for women… There are many substitutes for oil, but I can't think of a single substitute for a peace woman." Cora Weiss
Monday 25th October

1325: an exciting moment

Lyric Thompson, 25 October 2010
"If we’ve done as much with as little resources as women have, think what we could do with more. Women are the energy of the future… its up to women to show what women’s leadership in the UN can do." Charlotte Bunch
Friday 15th October

Good substance, bad politics: the row over 1325

Lyric Thompson, 15 October 2010
Why won’t the Security Council endorse the Secretary General’s strategy for enhancing women’s role in matters of peace and security? Is it because of the deep divisions within the UN system itself? Or is it because of the Russians? Lyric Thompson reports on the battle behind the scenes at the UN
Monday 11th October

SCR 1325: just words on a piece of paper

Lyric Thompson, 11 October 2010
"SCR 1325 is a tool, and the utility of a tool depends on how it is perceived and how activists employ it. So we have this resolution. Great; so what? Tell me how we can get people fired up on the ground." Peace laureate Jody Williams talks to Lyric Thompson.
Wednesday 29th September

The politics of peace: SCR 1325 at 10

Lyric Thompson, 29 September 2010
As the 10th anniversary of SCR 1325 approaches and the debates heat up, it is with dual and conflicting senses of deep frustration with the past and tentative optimism for the future. Lyric Thompson reports.
Thursday 11th March

Putting money where our mouths are

Lyric Thompson, 11 March 2010
Lyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of Women, there’s no mystery as to what it takes to close the tremendous gap between policy and practice: money. Best-laid plans are moot if not resourced. Invest in women. As the UN motto reminds us, it's our world.
Sunday 7th March

An uncomfortable truth: the gender turf war at UN CSW

Lyric Thompson, 7 March 2010
Lyric Thompson takes issue with those who argue that men are inherently unqualified to speak as advocates for women's rights, and sees a paradoxical mirror image of the thinking that kept us out of classrooms, voting booths, political offices and boardrooms globally
Friday 5th March

The price of peace

Lyric Thompson, 5 March 2010
“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing tremendous work on the ground, but they are not heard, they are not respected, and above all they are not funded.” Mary Robinson speaking at the UNCSW....
Wednesday 3rd March

Defining the new American gender agenda

Lyric Thompson, 3 March 2010
There has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new American gender agenda will be. Clearly, we’ll have one.......

A retrospective: 15 years later, Beijing’s mandate yet unfinished

Lyric Thompson, 2 March 2010
Fifteen years ago in Beijing, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton made an instantly iconic cry for women’s rights: “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.” On that day, those words evoked a seven minute standing ovation; they have inspired more than a decade of homage to this one
Syndicate content