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On the Radar Arab Women Rising: An Uncertain Future In an NPR interview and in a ForeignPolicy.com piece, Isobel Coleman discusses future prospects for women as their countries undergo democratic transitions. Read More » Trends to Watch in International Development for 2012 Coleman examines several up-and-coming interventions that will harness mobile technology and enhance agricultural outputs to improve development outcomes. Read More on Her Blog » Justice Matters Angelina Jolie's Film Bears Witness to Rape in War In a review of Angelia Jolie's film In the Land of Blood and Honey, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that the movie paints an "unforgettable" portrait about the changing nature of war and "the cruelty meted out to women simply to send a message." Read More » 'Blue Bra Girl' Rallies Egypt's Women On CNN.com, Coleman writes that public uproar in response to the savage beating of an abaya-clad female protester by Egyptian military forces "may breathe life into a movement that desperately needs new energy." Read More » Limited Rights and the Perilous Lives of Afghan Women Lemmon calls on the Afghan government, the international community, and the Western media to decrease the gap between the law's promise to protect the rights of women and actual practice in Afghanistan. Read More » Elections in Transition Political Quotas for Women: A Snapshot of the Middle East Coleman argues that political quotas for women are not effective in every country, nor are they guaranteed to increase women's meaningful and effective participation in governance. Nonetheless, quotas bring women's voices into political systems where they are otherwise excluded, shortcutting a process that can take generations. Read More on "Democracy in Development" » Women Fare Poorly in Egyptian Elections Coleman breaks down the final results of the Egyptian national elections and analyzes what the Egyptian public can expect from their newly elected female parliamentarians. Read More » Must Reads Obama Administration Releases First National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security The White House says the new plan will make the engagement and protection of women "central to the United States' efforts to promote security, prevent, respond to, and resolve conflict, and rebuild societies." Read the Full Plan » Hope Despite Economic Recession In a groundbreaking speech last September, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid out the economic arguments for gender equality, explaining that "narrowing the gender gap could lead to a 14 percent rise in per capita incomes by the year 2020 in several APEC economies, including China, Russia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Korea." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript » Two Years Later in Haiti: Women Are Paying the Price January 12 marked the two-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. A recent report, "Struggling to Survive," by MADRE—an international women's human rights organization—reveals that "women and girls in IDP [internally displaced person] camps and throughout Haiti generally, continue to face brutal rapes, attempted rapes, and other forms of sexual violence with little to no access to treatment, support, or remedy." Read the Full Report Here »
The Women and Foreign Policy program is a central component of CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative. The objective of the Women and Foreign Policy program is to broaden understanding of the importance of women's empowerment to a host of development, health, security, and other global priorities, and to bring the status of women firmly into the mainstream foreign policy debate.
Isobel Coleman
Senior Fellow and Director, Women and Foreign Policy Program and Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative
Rachel Vogelstein
Visiting Fellow, Women and Foreign Policy
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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