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  Gender and Power in an Age of Disinformation: A Conversation With Mary Anne Franks

  cfr.org - Catherine Powell

  This blog post was coauthored by Catherine Powell, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in the Women and Foreign Policy program …

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  Women This Week: Gender-Based Violence Prompts Outcry in Egypt, Jordan

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  Murders of Female Egyptian, Jordanian Students Lead to Widespread Anger in Middle East The high-profile murders of two female students, Naira Ashraf of …

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  Uproar Over Britain’s Rwanda Asylum Plan Overlooks Nagging Issues in Illegal Migration

  cfr.org - Ebenezer Obadare

  The intense hostility to the United Kingdom’s attempt to repatriate asylum-seekers in the country to Rwanda, four thousand miles away, was entirely …

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  Women This Week: U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade

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  U.S. Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Roe v. Wade The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade today, ending almost fifty years of the …

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  APC Runs Into Headwinds as Christian Opposition to Muslim-Muslim Ticket Gains Traction in Nigeria

  cfr.org - Ebenezer Obadare

  On Tuesday, July 21, a small crowd of protesters massed outside the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, Nigeria. Defying a …

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  Human Rights NGOs: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

  cfr.org - Elliott Abrams

  How much reliance should be placed on the major international human rights NGOs? Can they be trusted to work without bias? How are they …