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March 21, 2025

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The Value of Saving Women and Girls’ Lives Around the World

Women and girls’ lives are being lost due to the abrupt and sweeping cancellation of U.S. assistance approved by Congress. Programs should be reinstated while a deliberate reform is undertaken.

Young girls with U.S. and Kenya flags wait to greet U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec as he visits a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) project for girls' empowerment in Nairobi, Kenya, March 10, 2018.

February 25, 2025

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Girls Experiencing Significant Rate of Sexual Violence in Guatemala

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 15 to February 21.

A girl flies a kite over a grave during the celebration of All Saints Day, in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala, November 1, 2022.

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.

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.

October 10, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Taking Stock on the International Day of the Girl Child

Colombia, Sweden, and the United Nations to convene the First Global Ministerial on Ending Violence Against Children.

Sudanese girls who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, walk beside makeshift shelters holding each other's hands in Adre, Chad July 29, 2023.

March 13, 2025

United States
Beijing+30: The Global Status of Women

As member states convene for the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, please join us for a dialogue on th…

Play Beijing+30: The Global Status of Women event at CFR's NYC office

October 4, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: Women This Week: Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan Disproportionately Impacts 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 September 28 to October 4.

A child stands between two women at a school turned into a shelter, in Port Sudan, Sudan, August 29, 2024.

March 14, 2024

Education
2024 College and University Educators Workshop

The goal of the workshop is to find new ways for college and university educators to encourage their students to learn about international relations and the role of the United States in the world. It…

"The Role of the United States in the World" panel