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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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September 4, 2018
Mexico
Mexico's Female Legislators Are No Silver Bullet for Gender Inequality
Despite achieving near equal representation in congress, Mexico's new female lawmakers still need to fight to put women's issues on an already packed legislative agenda.
March 23, 2021
Democracy
Democracy Tested: Democratic Backsliding in Europe, With Ivan Krastev
In this special series of The President’s Inbox on the future of democracy, James M. Lindsay speaks with experts to discuss whether and where democratic governance is faltering around the world. This…
January 23, 2019
Niger
African Migration Across the Sahara Is Down
The BBC cites data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which are probably the best available. According to IOM, in 2015 there were 6,000 traffickers in the Agadez region of Niger who transported some 340,000 migrants across the Sahara to Libya. The migrants were eventually bound for Europe. They came from all over West Africa to Agadez, long a center of the cross Sahara trade.
October 30, 2015
Americas
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Indonesia Pledges to Join the TPP, Corruption in Venezuela
CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy (CSMD) Program highlights noteworthy events and articles each Friday in “This Week in Markets and Democracy.” Indonesia Pledges to Join the TPP Just fou…
October 20, 2011
United States
Libya and the International Community After Qaddafi
A staff member of the Libyan embassy steps on a portrait of Muammar Qaddafi in front of the embassy building in Sofia July 25, 2011 (Stoyan Nenov/Courtesy Reuters). CFR.org just posted a short video…
