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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 3, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Reparations for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Ukraine

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 April 27 to May 3.

Two women react in front of a pile of rubble that is left of the cafe that hosted the wake and was hit by a Russian missile, following a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 6,
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

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

October 30, 2013

Development
Adolescent Motherhood: Children Giving Birth to Children

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. The UNFPA’s 2013 “State of the World Population” report, published today, focu…

Africa - Girl Mother in Sandstorm
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

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

May 3, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: May 3, 2024

NETmunidal+10 conference held; FCC fines phone carriers; U.S. announces HIPAA amendment; EU police release statement opposing encryption; WhatsApp threatens to leave India.

Britain's computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee attends the NETmundial: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance opening ceremony in Sao Paulo April 23, 2014.
Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

April 22, 2024

Nigeria
The Record Breakers

Nigerians’ seemingly coordinated assault on the Guinness World Records offers a didactic lens into the national psyche and the state of the nation.

People cheer as Nigerian Chef Hilda Bassey attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking time by an individual, in Lagos, Nigeria on May 15, 2023.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition