Karin Attia

Karin Attia is a freelance peacebuilder and human rights researcher. Currently working on curriculum development for the Peace Project and as a communications manager for Young Peacebuilders. Follow her on twitter @KarinAttia

Who runs the world? Girls! Not at the UN CSW

At this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, the empowerment of girls is getting more attention than ever before. But the outcome document must demand that girls get to speak for themselves.

By Karin Attia

/ 23 Mar 2017

Who runs the world? Girls! Not at the UN CSW

At this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women, the empowerment of girls is getting more attention than ever before. But the outcome document must demand that girls get to speak for themselves.

By Karin Attia

/ 23 Mar 2017

UN CSW: engaging men and boys in ending violence against women as allies not protectors

Without a feminist lens, the expanding efforts to work with men and boys to promote gender justice are often patronizing and reinforce the idea that women need protection by men.

By Karin Attia

/ 31 Mar 2016

An intimate intifada

Recognizing and understanding Palestinian women’s unprecedented engagement in the latest wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank is a small but important step in ending this new uprising.

By Karin Attia

/ 14 Jan 2016