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January 31, 2025

Inequality
Women This Week: Crime of Femicide May be Removed From Argentina’s Penal Code

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 25 to January 31.

Women participate in a protest to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 25, 2024.

January 24, 2025

Mexico
Women This Week: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Responds to Executive Orders and Threats from President Trump

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 18 to January 24.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks about U.S. President Donald Trump's policies during a press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico January 21, 2025.

January 21, 2025

Technology and Innovation
Women This Week: UK to Pass Legislation Criminalizing Deepfake Images 

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 11 to January 17.

A woman holds her phone on the street in Westminster, in London, Britain, October 11, 2024.

January 28, 2025

Sexual Violence
The Revenge of the Me-Too Martyrs

In his cabinet picks, Trump is revealing not just an apathy towards sexual assault and harassment, but seemingly a celebration of it.

Security personnel remove a protester as Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, testifies before a Senate Committee on Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 14, 2025.

January 10, 2025

Religion
Women This Week: First Woman Appointed to Top Position in the Holy See

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 4 to January 10.

A nun speaks on the phone before Pope Francis holds a special audience for the participants in the IV International Meeting of Choirs, in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, June 8, 2024.

January 9, 2025

Human Rights
Malala Yousafzai Honored for Her Efforts to Combat Gender Apartheid Ten Years After Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the freedoms of women and girls by the Taliban 

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai poses for a portrait during an interview with Reuters after the 21st Nelson Mandela Annual Peace Lecture on the tenth anniversary of his death, in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 5, 2023.

December 20, 2024

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: Indian Politicians Court Women Voters

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 14 to December 20.

Women wait to cast their votes at a polling station during the fourth phase of India's general election in Srinagar May 13, 2024.

December 16, 2024

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Elected as Ghana’s First Female Vice 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 December 7 to December 13.

Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, 73, running mate of Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama, blows a kiss to supporters during the final election campaign rally in Accra, Ghana December 2024.

December 9, 2024

Women and Women's Rights
Women’s Power Index

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

December 6, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: New UN Report Finds Women Most At-Risk of Violence in Their Own Homes

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 23 to December 6.

Women shout slogans during a protest marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Caracas, Venezuela November 25, 2023.