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April 20, 2004

Education
Girls’ Education Key to Global Wealth, Health, New Council Report Finds

April 20, 2004 – Investing in girls’ education globally delivers huge returns for economic growth, political participation, women’s health, smaller and more sustainable families, and disease preventi…

April 10, 2006

Democracy
Afghanistan on “Life Support” Warns Council Report

Stabilization and reconstruction operations in Afghanistan have been overshadowed by developments in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, says the report, Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition From Turmoil to …

January 8, 2003

United States
Women’s Opinion on Defense Policies Has Been Transformed Since September 11: Women Now Favor Higher Defense Spending, Want a National Missile Defense,and are the Least Likely to Believe that Life Will Ever Return to Normal

Contact: Lisa Shields, Director of Communications, (212) 439 7926 or [email protected] November 1, 2001 – Across America, support for increased defense spending is now higher than at any point in n…

April 26, 2010

Gender
"Quiet Revolutionaries" are Empowering Women in the Middle East, writes Isobel Coleman in New CFR Book

Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East by Isobel Coleman

April 20, 2004

Education
Senator Clinton Offers ’Education Plan for All’ Plan

Legislation is Designed to Reach Goal of Universal Education by 2015 Washington, D.C. – In an address at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) today…