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May 11, 2021

Women and Women's Rights
How to Create a Breakthrough in the Fight Against Modern Slavery? Invest in the Economic Agency of Women and Girls

This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on human trafficking, in which CFR fellows and other leading experts assess new approaches to improve U.S. and global efforts to cur…

Iraqi women prepare food in kitchen run by Mahiya Yousef, who created her business in order to help unemployed women in Mosul.

November 20, 2002

Iraq
Wargame: Iraq—Shows How the Highest Levels of the U.S. Government Prepare for War

NBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations Collaborate on an In-Depth Look Inside the National Security Council, and How it Could Decide to go to War with Iraq New York, November 19, 2002…

December 14, 2005

Lebanon
Lasensky: Syria Clearly Acting As If It Has ‘Something to Hide’

Scott Lasensky, a Middle East specialist for the United States Institute of Peace, says pressure is mounting on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria overthe assassination of former Lebanese Pr…

November 3, 2010

India
India’s Nuclear Liability Dilemma

U.S. concerns over India’s nuclear liability law are likely to come up during President Obama’s trip to India, but expert Ashley Tellis says the trip is unlikely to yield alterations that allow a lev…

January 24, 2008

Financial Markets
Property without power?

Diplomatic sovereign wealth funds argue, more or less, that they have no desire for power - so there should be no restrictions on their ability to accumulate property. Those hoping for a cut of the S…