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June 14, 2022

United States
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Army!

The U.S. Army turns 247 years old today.  

Two soldiers hold a U.S. flag behind a soldier administering an oath to another solider on a beach.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 8, 2017

Development
International Women’s Day

This post is co-authored by Anne Connell, assistant director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Wednesday, March 8 marks International Women’s Day, an int…

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Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein and Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

November 27, 2018

United States
Now's the Time to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

The Equal Rights Amendment could find new life 46 years after it passed in Congress, only to fall short of the 38 states necessary for ratification. Now Virginia may be the state to resurrect the con…

An activist uses a mobile phone as she participates in a demonstration for women's rights on January 21, 2018.
Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Women Around the World

September 7, 2018

Afghanistan
The Future for Peace in Afghanistan is Much Brighter

Women are at the center of a push for an Afghanistan whose future looks different from its past. Recently, female activists spent days poring over a letter they wrote that urges the United Nations to…

Afghan women mourn inside a hospital compound after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Women Around the World

October 26, 2017

Women and Women's Rights
Women's Participation in Peace and Security Processes

This week marks the seventeen-year anniversary of the adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. The international agreement acknowledges the dispropor…

Burundi peacekeepers
Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein and Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women and Foreign Policy Program