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April 10, 2020

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Women This Week: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. In the coming weeks the series will explore how the COVID-19 pandemi…

Women speak while they wait to be checked by a medical team as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Rome, Italy, April 3, 2020.

April 17, 2020

COVID-19
Women This Week: Girls Stay Out of School

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. In the coming weeks the series will explore how the COVID-19 pandemi…

A girl arrives to school wearing a protective mask in Ayutthaya, outside Bangkok, Thailand February, 2020.

May 1, 2020

South Korea
Women This Week: South Korea Elects Record Number of Women

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. In the coming weeks the series will explore how the COVID-19 pandemi…

Women wearing masks to prevent contracting COVID-19 cast their ballots for the parliamentary election at a polling station in Seoul, South Korea.

May 8, 2020

Sudan
Women This Week: Sudan Passes Landmark Law on Female Genital Mutilation

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. In the coming weeks the series will explore how the COVID-19 pandemi…

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

March 6, 2020

Mexico
Women This Week: A Day Without Women in Mexico

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, covering February 24 to March 6, was compiled by M…

Women raise their hands as they protest against gender violence and femicide in Puebla, Mexico, February 22, 2020.