Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program
Democratization, economic development, civil society, gender, Middle East
Women and Foreign Policy, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, U.S. Foreign Policy Program
Ann Mei Chang, Alex Counts, and Scott C. Ratzan discuss innovative ways mobile technology can be leveraged to foster economic growth, empower women, improve public health, and alleviate poverty.
The Women and Technology Roundtable Series is made possible thanks to the generous support of ExxonMobil.
Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, which advises heads of state and governments worldwide; Author, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World and The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations
Isobel Coleman, Ed Husain, and Michael Willis discuss the relationship between Islam and politics following the Arab uprisings, including how Islam affects women's and minority rights, democracy, and secularism.
This session was part of a CFR symposium, Implications of the Arab Uprisings, which was made possible by the generous support of Rita E. Hauser, and organized in cooperation with University of Oxford's St. Antony's College.
Cherie Blair, Maura O'Neill, and Trina DasGupta discuss women's access to mobile technology and the opportunities it affords.
Linda Bartlett, an esteemed scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses maternal health in Afghanistan, highlighting her experiences during the Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS), which she had conducted on horseback only months after the fall of the Taliban in 2002.
This roundtable looked at successful and sustainable agricultural innovations used to enhance productivity and women's income-generating abilities in the developing world.
Experience has shown that community-based interventions not only reduce maternal mortality in Afghanistan, but also complement broader efforts to achieve stability and development in this war-torn country. Denise Byrd, an expert in maternal and child health, reproductive health, and family planning, described the challenges faced by maternal health providers in Afghanistan and discussed several successful intervention programs.
CFR's Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program sits down with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Deparment, to discuss the State Department's approach to alleviating poverty and empowering women in the developing world.
A group of experts discuss the impact of family planning policies on U.S. Foreign Policy.
This session is part of the Family Planning and U.S. Foreign Policy Project.
Experts discuss the impact of family planning initiatives on U.S. foreign policy.
This session is part of the Family Planning and U.S. Foreign Policy Project.
Experts discuss the impact of technology and banking on the economic and political development of women.
CFR fellows Isobel Coleman (recently returned from Cairo and Yemen) and Ed Husain discuss the developments in Egypt, the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, and U.S. policy towards the region.
In "Paradise Beneath Her Feet," Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism. Dr. Coleman argues that these efforts are critical to bridging the conflict between those championing reform and those seeking to oppress women in the name of religious tradition.
Experts give examples of bringing technologies to developing countries and how distribution of these products works.
Experts address challenges faced by companies producing new technologies for use in the developing world.
Experts discuss energy challenges facing women in the developing world and how new technologies can improve conditions and save lives.
A panel discussion on how American foreign aid will be affected by the global economic crisis.
Maria Otero, Robert Annibale, and Elizabeth Littlefield discuss the changing context of microfinance, a sector in transition.
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of the January 25th protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. On The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Isobel Coleman joins Steve Paikin to discuss the progress and setbacks for women's rights in Egypt one year later.
Isobel Coleman speaks with Foxnews.com's DEFCON3 with KT MCfarland about whether the election victory by the Islamist party in Tunisia is a cause for concern.
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman, author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East, visits Zócalo to discuss Islamic feminism, the women behind the movement, and why their success is crucial to fighting extremism and creating progress and stability in the Islamic world.
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