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April 11, 2024

Middle East and North Africa
Virtual Media Briefing: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

CFR experts Steven A. Cook and David J. Scheffer join Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard and Refugee International’s Jeremy Konyndyk to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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November 25, 2013

Religion
Ending the Practice of Child Marriage

Rachel Vogelstein, CFR's fellow for women and foreign policy, and Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, discuss ending the practice of child marriage at the American Academy of …

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December 16, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Women, Civic Participation, and the Legacy of the Nineteenth Amendment

Lucy Gettman, executive director of Women in Government, and Rachel B. Vogelstein, senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at CFR, discuss the importance of women's contrib…

Play Female members of Congress wearing white, hold up three fingers for the HR3 health care bill as U.S. President Donald Trump talks about health care during his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S.

March 8, 2021

Human Rights
The Biden Administration Agenda on Global Women’s Issues

The Joe Biden administration has announced it will establish the first-ever White House Gender Policy Council to coordinate federal efforts to advance gender equity and equality at home and abroad.  …

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May 22, 2013

Gender
Child Marriage and U.S. Foreign Policy

Mary Robinson and Geeta Rao Gupta discuss the Council on Foreign Relations report, Ending Child Marriage: How Elevating the Status of Girls Advances U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives. In the report, aut…

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