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July 15, 2022

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: France Repatriates Fifty-One Women and Children From Syrian Detention Camps

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 July 2 to July 15. 

Children look through holes in a tent at al Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria on April 2, 2019.
Blog Post by Haydn Welch Women Around the World

March 7, 2023

United States
Can Biden’s New Asylum Policy Help Solve the Migrant Crisis?

The Biden administration’s proposed immigration policy aims to curb migrant flows to the United States amid record border crossings. What will it do, and how does it compare to the Trump years?

In Brief by Diana Roy Renewing America

February 18, 2021

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Lost Generation? Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Learning and Beyond
Play Seven-year-old Hamza Haqqani, a 2nd grade student at Al-Huda Academy, uses a computer to participate in an E-learning class with his teacher and classmates while at his home on May 01, 2020 in Bartlett, Illinois. Al-Huda Academy, an Islam based private school that teaches pre-school through the 6th grade students, has had to adopt an E-learning program to finish the school year after all schools in the state were forced to cancel classes in an attempt to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual Event by Joshua Barocas and Robert Jenkins

February 19, 2020

United Nations
Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations: Protecting Our Children’s Future

Henrietta Fore discusses the work of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as well as her priorities and goals for the agency.

Podcast Fatima, 12, attends Arabic classes at Imran Binu Hussein Primary School in the Hodan district, Mogadishu.
Event by Henrietta H. Fore Sorensen Lecture

March 13, 2023

United States
It’s Time to End Child Marriage in the United States

Child marriage remains legal in most U.S. States. Before it can curb this harmful practice abroad, the U.S. must first end it at home.

Child Marraige
Blog Post by Ann Norris Renewing America

March 13, 2023

United Nations
Funding the United Nations: How Much Does the U.S. Pay?

Many UN agencies, programs, and missions receive crucial funding from the United States. The Trump administration sharply reduced funding to some UN agencies, but President Biden has largely reversed…

Article by CFR.org Editors

May 4, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
The ISIS Bride Problem: Don't Take It Out on the Children

Foreign ISIS wives still in Syria live in dust-coated tents, or sometimes in prison rooms, alongside their children, inhabiting a legal purgatory until one authority or another figures out what to do…

Children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and ISIL in the northern Iraq city of Mosul.
Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Women Around the World

May 1, 2017

Palestinian Territories
Teaching Palestinian Children to Value Terrorism

Peace between Israel and the Palestinians does not, fundamentally, depend on who is doing the negotiating, how skilled they are, and other such diplomatic matters. Fundamentally it depends on the des…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

March 21, 2023

Global
A Conversation With David Malpass

World Bank President David Malpass discusses the overlapping challenges facing developing countries and opportunities for action.

Play David Malpass speaks at event with World Bank logo on screen behind him
Virtual Event by David R. Malpass

December 20, 2018

Cambodia
Can Hun Sen Pass Power to His Children?

Charles Dunst is a journalist based in Phnom Penh. He was written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the South China Morning Post, and the American Prospect, among other publi…

Hun and Son
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound