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September 18, 2024

Global
What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.

Students attend a lesson at a school in the Tillabéri region of Niger.

September 6, 2024

United States
Why Biden Wants to Block the Nippon-U.S. Steel Deal

U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to block the Japanese takeover of U.S. Steel, raising questions about the administration’s economic and foreign policy priorities.  

September 10, 2019

United States
U.S. Human Rights Policy, With Sarah B. Snyder

Sarah B. Snyder, associate professor at American University’s School of International Service, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S. human rights policy and her most recent book, From Selma…

Podcast Original "foot soldiers" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

April 26, 2018

Human Rights
Sarah Margon on Human Rights

Sarah Margon, the Washington director at Human Rights Watch, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the Trump administration's approach to human rights policy.

Podcast 20180426_TPI_HRW

August 22, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Thousands Protest Murder and Rape of Female Doctor in India

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 August 17 to August 23.

A woman lights a candle as she attends a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee medic, inside the premises of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, August 20, 2024.

September 18, 2024

Nigeria
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar of Nigeria

Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar of Nigeria discusses emerging issues in the sub-region and across the continent, including Nigeria's foreign policy initiatives and challenges to economic and regional s…

Play Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar gives a speech during a press conference.

October 17, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
International Day of the Girl Child: A Conversation with Kakenya Ntaiya and Sarah Craven

Girls’ education is one of the most effective development investments. Yet 130 million girls remain out of school, and each year, twelve million girls are married before their eighteenth birthday. To…

Podcast Jedidah Nkadayo, a 12 year old Maasai girl who was rescued from marriage, listens to her teacher at a boarding school in Kajiado, Kenya on January 13, 1999.