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October 25, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Rate of Women Killed in Conflict Doubles in 2023

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 October 19 to October 25.

Women carry belongings on their heads while government soldiers loot homes and shops after a day of fighting in the village of Kayna in eastern Congo, November 18, 2008.

October 18, 2024

Demonstrations and Protests
Women This Week: Women Demand that President Erdoğan Act to Address Domestic Violence

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 October 12 to October 18.

People take part in a demonstration to protest against all gender-based violence and femicide, ahead of International Women's Day, in Istanbul, Turkey March 3, 2024.

October 11, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Highly Restrictive Six-Week Abortion Ban

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 October 5 to October 11.

Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Highly Restrictive Six-Week Abortion Ban

September 18, 2024

United States
The Millennium Challenge Corporation at 20: Progress and Prospects

Panelists reflect on the past, present, and future of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) having reached its twentieth anniversary of operation, as well as the future of economic diplomacy and…

Play Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Alice Albright speaks at podium in Washington, DC, U.S.

October 4, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Women This Week: Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan Disproportionately Impacts Women and Girls

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 September 28 to October 4.

A child stands between two women at a school turned into a shelter, in Port Sudan, Sudan, August 29, 2024.

September 20, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Women’s Deaths Cited as ‘Preventable’ in Georgia

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 September 14 to September 20.

Abortion rights advocates gather to launch their 'Yes On 4' campaign with a march and rally against the six-week abortion ban ahead of November 5, when Florida voters will decide on whether there should be a right to abortion in the state, in Orlando, Florida, U.S. April 13, 2024.

September 27, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Gisèle Pelicot is France’s New Feminist Hero

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 September 21 to September 27.

People attend a demonstration in support of rape victims and Gisele Pelicot, who was allegedly drugged and raped by men solicited by her husband Dominique Pelicot, as the trial continues, at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, September 14, 2024.

September 20, 2024

Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: September 20, 2024

UN releases report on global AI governance; electronics explode across Lebanon; EU Commissioner Thierry Breton resigns; Instagram announces safety overhaul; U.S. seizes Chinese-controlled botnet.

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, on September 18, 2024

October 10, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Taking Stock on the International Day of the Girl Child

Colombia, Sweden, and the United Nations to convene the First Global Ministerial on Ending Violence Against Children.

Sudanese girls who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, walk beside makeshift shelters holding each other's hands in Adre, Chad July 29, 2023.

October 8, 2024

Corruption
A Conversation with Agather Atuhaire, Executive Team Lead at Agora Discourse

Ugandan lawyer, journalist, digital activist, and 2024 laureate of the International Women of Courage Award describes work using the digital space to expose corruption and advocate for social justice…

US First Lady Jill Biden (R) applauds International Women of Courage award recipient Agather Atuhaire (L), journalist, attorney and social justice activst from Uganda, during the 18th Annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards Ceremony at the White House on March, 4, 2024 in Washington, DC.