Making Loans Work For Women
In a Newsweek interview, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses what the international community can do to support female entrepreneurs.
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The Women and Foreign Policy program is a major component of CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy initiative. The objective of the Women and Foreign Policy program is to bring the status of women firmly into the mainstream foreign policy debate. Thanks in part to its efforts, there is now broad understanding of the importance of women's empowerment to a host of development, health, security, and other global priorities.
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In a Newsweek interview, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses what the international community can do to support female entrepreneurs.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the success of Afghan women.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that even though Bibi Aisha, the Afghan teenager maimed by her Taliban-sympathizing husband and his family, has relocated to the United States, her story does not yet have a happy ending.
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As the United States backs reconciliation talks with the Taliban, many Afghan women fear a rollback of their rights. The international community must ensure that discussions of Afghanistan's future include its women, says CFR's Gayle Lemmon.
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CFR's Isobel Coleman discusses the rise of women in a professional and public capacity in the Middle East with students, as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call series.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon argues that women are an untapped resource, and investment in women is critical to future growth.
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This module features teaching notes by CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman, author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East, along with other resources to supplement the text. Dr. Coleman demonstrates how influential Islamic feminist thinkers are driving social change in the Middle East to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the rise of raisin production in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the concern Afghan women have over losing their rights in post-war Afghanistan.
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Experts discuss the role of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for new government development policy, the importance of increasing aid funding transparency with developing nations, and the impact of the financial crisis on the developing world.
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Isobel Coleman and Mary Ellen Iskenderian discuss several commitments aimed at women and girls from the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative.
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Isobel Coleman discusses an initiative to provide affordable, efficient stoves to one hundred million homes around the world by 2020.
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Unless more investment is forthcoming, the MDG goals promoting gender equality and reducing maternal mortality may remain unmet, says CFR'S Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the advances made by Afghan women.
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Isobel Coleman explains how to tap into the burgeoning power of women in the global marketplace.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the benefits to women of the international community's presence in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the escape of a child bride in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says the WikiLeaks cache highlighted the problem of police corruption in Afghanistan and asks if female officers could change the force's culture.
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The passage of a burqa ban by the French National Assembly is a response to France's "idea of women's dignity," voter support, and a desire to blunt "the rise of fundamentalism," says CFR's Isobel Coleman.
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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.
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