The UN's Selective Silence Betrays Women Again

The UN's Selective Silence Betrays Women Again

For decades, the United Nations has presented itself as the world’s foremost institutional defender of women against violence, war, and oppression. That claim has now been tested—and found wanting. When Israeli women were subjected to systematic sexual brutality during Hamas’s 7 October attack, key voices within the international community grew strangely hesitant to say so plainly. More than 600 days later, that hesitation has become increasingl…

The UN’s Selective Silence Betrays Women Again

For decades, the United Nations has presented itself as the world’s foremost institutional defender of women against violence, war, and oppression. That claim has now been tested—and found wanting. When Israeli women were subjected to systematic sexual brutality during Hamas’s 7 October attack, key voices within the international community grew strangely hesitant to say so...