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May 22, 2013
Gender
Child Marriage and U.S. Foreign Policy
Mary Robinson and Geeta Rao Gupta discuss the Council on Foreign Relations report, Ending Child Marriage: How Elevating the Status of Girls Advances U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives. In the report, aut…
May 22, 2013
Gender
Child Marriage and U.S. Foreign Policy
RACHEL VOGELSTEIN: Welcome, everyone, to the Council on Foreign Relations. We are here tonight to mark the release of the first-ever report on child marriage from the council, and we are very fort…
September 10, 2012
Noncommunicable Diseases
Non-Communicable Diseases and the New Global Health
Global health needs are changing. A new set of global health challenges, from diabetes, cancer, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to traffic injuries, are overtaking infectious diseases as m…
October 4, 2010
Development
Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals
Related Readings: President Obama's Speech at the UN MDG Summit, September 2010 MDGs for Women Largely Unmet by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Time for a Rethink by Jagdish N. Bhagwati
October 4, 2010
Development
Evaluating Progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals
Experts discuss the role of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a framework for new government development policy, the importance of increasing aid funding transparency with developing nations, an…
May 15, 2007
Health Policy and Initiatives
Is Male Circumcision the Key to Stopping the AIDS Epidemic?
Introduction The U.S. is in the midst of a five-year, $15 billion commitment to fight AIDS in developing countries. Despite that support, and billions of dollars from other sources, the AIDS pande…