The Nobel Women’s Initiative is trying to reduce the risk of war with Iran. Read excerpts from the press conference organized by the Institute for Policy Studies.
Nobel Women’s Initiative
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Okinawa and the U.S. Military in Northeast Asia
Women in the Middle East
Masculinity As Foreign Policy Issue
GATS and Women
Key Points
AIDS and Developing Countries: Facilitating Access to Essential Medicines
Women & Development Aid
Key Points
The Politics and the Promise of Civilizational Dialogues
After attending two back-to-back "international dialogues of civilizations," one in Doha, Qatar (Jan. 9-12) organized by Brookings Institution and the Emir of Qatar, and another at UNESCO in Paris (Jan. 17-19) hosted by UNESCO, Euro Mediterranean, and President Jacques Chirac, I cannot help but reflect on the promise and the politics of dialogues.
Guatemalan Woman’s Asylum Case a Major Test for Ashcroft’s Position on Women’s Rights
Immigration and human rights groups are hoping that a legal brief they have submitted to Attorney General John Ashcroft will persuade him to uphold a proposed Clinton administration policy that women who have suffered severe domestic abuse in their homeland may be granted political asylum in the United States.