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January 19, 2024

Health Policy and Initiatives
Women This Week: Gender Health Gap Hindering Global Economy Growth

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 January 13 to January 19.

A woman wearing a protective face mask leaves a health center in Madrid, Spain, January 10, 2024.

January 5, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Texas Abortion Ban Overrides Federal Guidance

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 December 30 to January 5.

Empty boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medication abortion, fill a trash can at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., January 11, 2023.

November 17, 2023

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Women This Week: Israelis and Palestinians Pay Tribute to Women Wage Peace Cofounder

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 November 11 to November 17.

Women gesture as they take part in a protest, organised by "Women Wage Peace" grassroots movement, against Israel's planned annexation of part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, outside government offices in Tel Aviv, Israel June 18, 2020. The placards in Hebrew read," Stop the annexation, make peace" and in Arabic, "Women make peace".

February 1, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Study Reports Over 64,000 Pregnancies Related to Rape Post Roe v. Wade

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 January 20 to January 26.

Lu Libing's wife, Mu, poses for pictures during an interview with Reuters at their home in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province March 13, 2014.

December 29, 2023

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Details From October 7 Reveal Sexual Violence

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 December 23 to December 29.

A girl helps to light a candle, as people gather for a candlelit vigil to mark the one-month anniversary of the October 7 deadly attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 7, 2023.

November 3, 2023

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Future of the Catholic Church to Include More Women

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 October 28 to November 3.

Nuns hold rosaries as Pope Francis celebrates the Angelus prayer from a window for All Saints Day at Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, November 1, 2023.

October 27, 2023

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Sexual Assault Increasing Among Displaced Women in the Congo

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 October 21 to October 27.

Internally displaced Congolese Muslim women attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in the Munigi camp site near Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, April 21, 2023.

December 15, 2023

United States
Women This Week: Texas Fails to Resolve Confusion over Abortion Bans

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 December 9 to December 15. 

A patient looks at her ultrasound before proceeding with a medical abortion at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., August 23, 2022.

April 30, 2024

Sustainable Development Goals (UN)
Renewed Efforts are Urgently Needed to Fight Increase in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Without accelerated efforts, there is no chance of getting anywhere close to eliminating FGM/C by 2030. 

Women from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender based violence play with their children outside a traditional mud dwelling known as Manyatta at the Umoja village where men are restricted, in Samburu near Archers Post in the northern Samburu County, Kenya.

October 6, 2023

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Indigenous Women Seek Damages for Involuntary Birth Control

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 September 30 to October 6.

A young and an old woman in traditional Inuit clothing stand after a baptism in front of the Nuuk Cathedral (Church Of Our Saviour) in Nuuk, Greenland, September 5, 2021