Lyric Thompson is co-chair of Girls Not Brides, USA, and Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women.
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Published in: 50.50Putting money where our mouths are
Lyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of...
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Published in: 50.50An uncomfortable truth: the gender turf war at UN CSW
Lyric Thompson takes issue with those who argue that men are inherently unqualified to speak as advocates for...
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Published in: 50.50The price of peace
“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing...
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Published in: 50.50Defining the new American gender agenda
There has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new American gender agenda will be....
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Published in: 50.50A retrospective: 15 years later, Beijing’s mandate yet unfinished
Fifteen years ago in Beijing, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton made an instantly iconic cry for women’s rights:...