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April 16, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Preventable Complications Responsible for Most Maternal Deaths

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 5 to April 11. 

A child touches her pregnant mother's stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 18, 2025

Inequality
Women This Week: Colonel Nicole Malachowski’s Historic Thunderbird Flight Removed From Air Force Website

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 12 to April 18. 

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Nicole Malachowski, 333rd Fighter Squadron commander, conducts pre-flight inspections in an F-15E Strike Eagle prior to take-off on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., May 8, 2013.
Post by Linda Robinson and Noël James Women Around the World

April 7, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Cuts to Title X Family Planning and Women’s Health Clinics

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 March 29 to April 4. 

Nuns pray outside of a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 12, 2021 as the state considers restrictive abortion laws.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 1, 2025

Women and Women's Rights
Women’s Power Index

Find out where women around the world wield political power—and why it matters.

Tracker by Linda Robinson and Noël James Women and Foreign Policy Program

March 31, 2025

Namibia
Women This Week: Namibia Inaugurates Its First Woman President

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 March 8 to March 14.

Namibia's first female President, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah reacts during her inauguration at the State House in Windhoek, Namibia, March 21, 2025.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

March 24, 2025

Demonstrations and Protests
Women This Week: Iran Using Electronic Surveillance to Enforce Veiling Laws

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 March 15 to March 21.

Iranian women pray in the shrine of Abdol-Azim, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, March 12, 2025.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 3, 2025

Heads of State and Government
Women’s Power Index Shows Stalled Progress for Women’s Political Participation

New data from CFR’s Women’s Power Index tracks countries’ continued progress toward gender parity in political representation.  

Women's Power Index, April 1, 2025
Post by Linda Robinson and Noël James Women Around the World

March 17, 2025

Demonstrations and Protests
Women This Week: Protests Held in Multiple Countries for International Women’s Day

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 March 8 to March 14.

People gather during a joint protest of students and workers on International Women's Day in Belgrade, Serbia March 8, 2025.
Post by Noël James Women Around the World

March 7, 2025

Foreign Aid
Women This Week: United States Slashes All Funding for UN Agency Focused on Women and Girls Health

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 March 1 to March 7.

Women carry bags of rice from USAID as part of food distributed by various relief agencies in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince February 18, 2010.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

March 3, 2025

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Russia’s War Against Ukraine Reverses Progress for Women and Girls

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 February 22 to February 28.

Women react as they attend a rally of relatives of Ukrainian Marines who defended the Azovstal and are prisoners of war, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 6, 2025.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World