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June 12, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Women Revolutionizing Blockchain: Cryptocurrencies for Change

Will cryptocurrencies radically alter the world's financial institutions? If so, will women help redesign them and will their needs as economic actors be taken into account? Amber Baldet, cofounder a…

Podcast A man stands near an advertisement of a cryptocurrency exchange in Tokyo, Japan.

January 11, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Women's Rights, Human Rights, and Counterterrorism

Fionnula D. Ní Aoláin, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, discussed her work to mainstream gender analysis thro…

Podcast The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) conducted its first all-female foot patrol with ten female peacekeepers.

November 9, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Gender Bias Inside the Digital Revolution: Human Rights and Women's Rights Online

As the world moves deeper into the digital age, international organizations, businesses, and governments grapple with questions about how technology challenges and reinforces biases. Dr. Safiya Noble…

Podcast Youths browse the internet inside the venue of the launch of Google free wifi project in Nigeria July 26, 2018.

June 11, 2020

Learning From Past Pandemics

Please join our panelists for a discussion on the lessons medical professionals and policymakers have learned in combating past pandemics and how such lessons can be applied in the fight against COVI…

Play Medical workers collect swabs

December 4, 2023

Economics
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Gary Gensler

Gary Gensler of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discusses investor protection, fair markets, capital formation, and the role of American capital markets in the global economy. Th…

Play U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler testifies before a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill.

September 5, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Behind the Screen: Gender, the Digital Workforce, and the Hidden World of Content Moderation

As user-generated content on the internet continues to increase in popularity, the question of who moderates this content comes to the forefront when discussing the future of social media . Dr. Sarah…

Podcast A picture illustration shows a Facebook logo reflected in a person's eye, in Zenica, March 13, 2015.