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September 5, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Family Law Reform and Women’s Rights

Around the world, family law and criminal codes are rife with provisions that undermine women’s rights, safety, and economic opportunity. Rangita de Silva de Alwis, an advisor to the European Union o…

Podcast Krishna, 13, at her house in a village near Baran, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 17, 2012. Krishna married her husband when she was 11 and he was 13. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, but marriages like these are common.
Event by Rachel B. Vogelstein, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, and Farahnaz Ispahani Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 29, 2003

India
U.S. Must Make South Asia a High Foreign Policy Priority or Face Crises in the Region That Will Pose Major Threats to U.S. National Security

October 30, 2003 - After the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the massing of a million men on the borders of nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in 2001, the critical importance of South Asia to glob…

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September 11, 2006

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Musharraf’s Taliban Problem

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is under increasing pressure from NATO and the United States to clamp down on Taliban militants, but internal resistance from Pakistani Islamists is preventing hi…

Backgrounder by Lionel Beehner

June 5, 2006

Iraq
The Emerging Shia Crescent Symposium: Understanding the Shia

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Reception9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Discussion

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Event by Dale Eickelman, Reza Aslan, Noah Feldman, and Lisa Anderson

June 5, 2006

Iraq
The Emerging Shia Crescent Symposium: Understanding the Shia

RICHARD HAASS (president, Council on Foreign Relations):  Well, good morning.  We’re only seven minutes late.   This morning’s event is titled “The Emerging Shia Crescent: Implications for theMiddle…

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