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Women Around the World: Year in Review

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By experts and staff

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  • Guest Blogger for Women Around the World

Welcome to a special edition of “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, highlighting 2015’s most significant stories about the status of women and girls, was compiled by Anne Connell and Becky Allen.

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    A woman pushes a baby stroller after airstrikes on a busy marketplace in Douma, Syria August 12, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
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      A woman holds a child outside in a rural area outside of Beijing, August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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            Nepal’s newly elected President Bidhya Bhandari in Kathmandu, Nepal October 28, 2015. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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                A Vietnamese woman carries a grass basket on a terraced rice paddy field in Mu Cang Chai, where climate change is causing flooding and losses in rice production. REUTERS/Kham
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                  U.S. Army convoys during the last convoy out of Iraq, December 18, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton