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August 31, 2023
Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Investigation into Unwanted World Cup Kissing Scandal
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 August 26 to September 1.
May 17, 2016
Cuba
Cuba: the "Law Enforcement Dialogue" and the Cop Murderer
The United States and Cuba are about to enter a series of "dialogues" including one about law enforcement. Here is what Reuters reported: Cuba and the United States aim to reach new agreement…
April 22, 2011
Yemen
Weekend Reading
A woman weaves a carpet at a factory in Mashad, east of Tehran (Caren Firouz/Courtesy Reuters) Qifa Nabki on the Lebanese stalemate in forming a new government. Joshua Landis on Syria Comme…
February 14, 2014
Cuba
Push Polls and Cuba
You can’t always get what you want, the Rolling Stones once told us. But you can, actually, in a push poll: a poll designed to elicit a certain result and then advertised as achieving that result. T…
August 21, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebola “a Complete Disaster”
This is the conclusion of Dr. Joanne Liu, MD, president of Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres-MSF). Her interview in the New York Times is a compelling must-read for those watching Ebo…
