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March 13, 2024

Global
The President’s Inbox Recap: International Women’s Day

Adolescence is one of the most formative periods in a girl’s life.

Five girls as viewed sitting in a line.
Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

February 9, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: #MeToo Resurgence in Cameroon

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers February 3 to February 9.

A protester raises a placard reading "#MeToo" during a rally against harassment at Shinjuku shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan, April 28, 2018.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

February 23, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Wife of Russian Opposition Leader Vows to Carry on His Work

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers February 17 to February 23.

A woman takes part in a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Omsk, Russia January 23, 2021.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

February 2, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Record Protest in Kenya Against Femicide

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers January 27 to February 2.

Human rights activists react as they attend a protest demanding an end to femicides in the country in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, January 27, 2024.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

March 6, 2023

United States
Biden’s Progress on Women’s Rights: Good Start, But Not Fast Enough

More than two years into his presidency, Joseph Biden has achieved some of his gender equality goals, and fallen short on others.

President Biden hosts a virtual meeting with governors inside the White House
Blog Post by Linda Robinson Renewing America

December 8, 2023

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Kazakhstan Establishes Women’s Police Stations

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers December 2 to December 8.

People, including activists of Zhana Adamdar (New People) youth movement, hold a rally under the slogan "Say no to the beast world" to support women's rights and to condemn gender-based domestic violence in Almaty, Kazakhstan, November 26, 2023. One of the slogans on placards reads: "No to violence!"
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

December 22, 2023

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Aid Cuts Disproportionately Affect Women-Led Households in Afghanistan

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers December 16 to December 22.

Afghan women and children travel on a truck while heading back to Afghanistan, after Pakistan gave a final warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, at the Friendship Gate of Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan November 4, 2023.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

November 17, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Women This Week: Israelis and Palestinians Pay Tribute to Women Wage Peace Cofounder

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers November 11 to November 17.

Women gesture as they take part in a protest, organised by "Women Wage Peace" grassroots movement, against Israel's planned annexation of part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, outside government offices in Tel Aviv, Israel June 18, 2020. The placards in Hebrew read," Stop the annexation, make peace" and in Arabic, "Women make peace".
Blog Post by Women and Foreign Policy Program Staff Women Around the World

August 31, 2023

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Investigation into Unwanted World Cup Kissing Scandal

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers August 26 to September 1.

Soccer Football - People protest against Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales - Plaza Callao, Madrid, Spain - August 28, 2023 People hold banners and protest in Madrid following a kiss between Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales and Spain's Jennifer Hermoso after the Women's World Cup Final
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World