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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 3, 2018
Women and Economic Growth
The Changing Landscape in Women’s Economic Empowerment
As women’s economic empowerment rises on the global agenda, the architecture to support this development imperative is shifting. Several leaders have recently launched innovative initiatives that aff…
December 4, 2018
Sexual Violence
New Ways for the United Nations to Tackle Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Sexual exploitation and abuse has tarnished the operations of peacekeepers charged with protecting civilians, thereby undermining the integrity and effectiveness of international peacekeeping institu…
February 16, 2021
Defense and Security
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses her new book, The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice. In an unlikely showdown in northeastern Syria in 2014, an all-female militia faced of…
February 5, 2006
United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?
In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased." Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…
September 21, 2009
India
India’s Climate Change Forecast
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh says India plans to outline unilateral greenhouse gas emissions cuts soon. But he says rich states must commit to greater cuts of their own before developing countr…