Over the past 30 years, study after study by academics, development practitioners, and international agencies has demonstrated the seemingly self-evident fact that women are equal to men, and sometimes surpass men, in contributing to social and economic development.
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Archive: Reports
Ratifying Global Toxics Treaties: The U.S. Must Provide Leadership
The international community has, at long last, recognized that there are some toxic chemicals that are just too dangerous to produce, use, and storeput simply, too dangerous to have on the planet.
Read moreUse of Children as Soldiers
Poverty, social disruption and destruction stemming from these wars, and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons are major factors in expanding the use of child soldiers.
Read moreU.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean
The explosion of U.S. military interest and funding for Plan Colombia, occurring in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from military bases in Panama in December 1999, has given rise to a proliferation of new U.S. bases and military access agreements in the region.
Read moreNo Room for Mistakes: Rethinking Nuclear Technology
The devastating terrorist attack that struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001, shattered New Yorks massive World Trade Center, a piece of the Pentagon, thousands of innocent lives, and the illusion that sophisticated technology and powerful weapons could keep America safe.
Read moreU.S.-Russia Nuclear Reductions
After the attacks of September 11 and the post-attack rash of anthrax mailings, renewed attention is being paid to the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD) falling into the hands of additional states and nonstate actors.
Read moreU.S. Should Act to Open the Board Meetings of the IFIs
The international financial institutions (IFIs), particularly the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, but also including the regional development banks such as the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, have come under unprecedented criticism in the United States.
Read moreMultilateral Debt: The Unbearable Burden
For most of the worlds impoverished countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the status of IFIs as preferred creditors assigned them by the Group of 7 (G-7) industrialized countries.
Read moreGlobalization & Militarization
After a post-cold war decline, global military spending rose in 2000 to $800 billion.
Read moreThe Peace Process Between Israel and Syria
The U.S. has long considered Syria the most intractable of Israels front-line neighbors due to its autocratic government, links to terrorists, and virulent anti-Israel posture.
Read moreU.S. Security Assistance to Israel
The violence of the past year and a half between Israelis and Palestinians has left more than 2,000 people dead, torpedoed the peace process, and turned the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip into battlefields.
Read moreSecurity Assistance After September 11
Not since anticommunism was used to excuse the arming and training of repressive governments during the cold war has there been such a broad, fail-safe rationale to provide military aid and arms to disreputable foreign militaries.
Read moreGlobal Public Health: Access to Essential Medicines
Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century.
Read moreWTO Agreement on Agriculture: Suitable Model for a Global Food System?
The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) is a product of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations (1986-94).
Read moreGlobal Toxics Treaties: U.S. Leadership Opportunity Slips Away
Once again, the U.S. is squandering an opportunity for leadership in the international environmental policy arena.
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