Looking back on this year, one of the most poignant moments for me was the death of Elizabeth Edwards, former wife of and public advocate for presidential hopeful John Edwards of North Carolina.

In 2008 she was in my home - one of a group of women spending time...

This post was co-authored by Mary Welstead, a visiting professor at the University of Buckingham. It was originally published by GlobalPost.

Monday, March 1, 2010, on the eve of his 64th birthday, Professor Ejup Ganic was arrested.

A United States-educated academic and former member of the...

This post originally appeared in the January 28, 2010 edition of The Boston Globe and can be found online here.

In 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer...

Today is election day in Moldova, Europe's poor step-sister in the southeast corner, near the Black Sea. A good excuse to break out some of the most pleasant wines on the continent -- accompaniment to a smooth, ground lump of golden hominy, plus anything and everything smothered in sour cream....

It's been a week of historic moments for women in the US and around the world.

Thinking back -- in August, I stood on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Denver listening to pundits as they debated whether women would support Barack Obama. They did--56% of them,...

As the world celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, one gathering in particular testified to the resilience of the human spirit.

Some 800 guests assembled in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia on the coast of West Africa, for the International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and...

Continuing on my Eastern European trip, after Austria and Ukraine, I passed through the Czech Republic. Twenty years ago, Czechoslovakia became a democratic nation as a result of the Velvet Revolution. In 1993, the country peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Ten years ago it became a member...

This post was coauthored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a graduate student at Harvard who is focusing on conflict and gender.

A few days ago, the United Nations released its latest report on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the international commitment to prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The...

I'm at the concert hall in Odessa, sitting on stage behind the first violins as the orchestra rehearses the Scherzo of the Schumann Symphony No. 2. A wave of pathos moves across the groups of players. Now the mournful theme is shifting from minor to major, introducing an element of...

I'm in Kiev, sitting on a gray leather sofa, eating a small fish and tomato open sandwich when I hear the phrase which I've heard from hundreds, if not thousands of women before: "What you're saying is so important; I just don't think I have the expertise in this area...

I'm on a swing through central/eastern Europe -- familiar territory since 1993, when I became US ambassador to Austria. In fact, my predecessor was none other than Roy Huffington. That's right: Arianna's father-in-law.

Since the mid-1990s, I've made dozens of trips to the newly independent states. (My husband, Charles Ansbacher,...

Watching Hillary Clinton before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee was an unalloyed joy. Smart, committed, grounded. Values I've admired ever since we first worked together in 1992 on her husband's campaign. In fact, she's the reason I was appointed US Ambassador to Austria, where we brought 170 women leaders from...

With the announcement of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Susan Rice as Ambassador to the UN, much of the current commentary on the selection of President-elect Obama's impressive national security team has speculated that US foreign policy will actively champion women's rights, fighting horrors like mass rape and...

A few days ago, standing front row, right, in a strangely barren room at a Boston hotel, I watched Hillary Clinton walk onto a stage with a rather lonely American flag, and again capture the admiration and imagination of every person in the audience. But this group was 80...

July 21, 2008: The day that ended a 13-year failure. The day that promises were kept. The day that Serbian security forces met their responsibilities. The day that Dr. Radovan Karadzic was arrested for a war crimes indictment handed down July 24, 1995.

The former president of Bosnia's rebel...