New data that provides a picture, for the first time, of the rates at which children are being listed on marriage license applications estimates that North Carolina is among the top five US states for child marriage.

Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States

A suite of transition memos to the next Administration outlines guidance for the first 100 days in office from Girls Not Brides USA, the Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment & Equality and the Coalition for a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States,

Women leaders successfully fighting coronavirus show why we need a feminist foreign policy. By ICRW’s Lyric Thompson and Oxfam’s Gawain Kripke for NBC Think.

Where The Women Aren’t: On Coronavirus Task Forces. By Malaka Gharib for NPR.

ICRW welcomes the announcement that the Women, Peace and Security Act has been signed into law. The bipartisan legislation is the result of years of work by peace advocates, defense experts, researchers, policymakers and women’s rights activists around the world.

Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States

COVID-19 and Adolescent Girls: Ensuring the U.S. Government’s Response Prioritizes the Needs of Child Brides and Girls at Risk of Child Marriage (Girls Not Brides USA)

Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative One Year On: An analysis by the Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality

Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United States (Discussion Draft)

The Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality (CWEEE) issued a statement with their analysis of the White House’s new Women’s Global Development & Prosperity Initiative, launched February 8th, 2019.

COVID-19 and Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEEE)

Women’s economic empowerment has become a buzzword in global development, with supposed benefits ranging from reduced poverty and inequality to more inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Yet the meaning of the phrase is often used as shorthand for increased earnings and economic status. But economic empowerment is much more than this: it is a concept that seeks greater access to economic resources and institutions but also fosters increased agency and decision-making over these resources and institutions.

This brief overviews the various forms of violence associated with conflict and crisis; analyzes relevant U.S. policy and programs that could or should address such violence; and makes recommendations for actions the United States can take to ensure its investments comprehensively address all forms of violence faced by girls and women around the world.

This policy brief lays out efforts taken by the U.S. government to reduce FGM/C worldwide and provides concrete recommendations for how the U.S. can leverage current and future investments to end the harmful practice.

Read our recommendations for increasing girls’ and young women’s agency and decision-making through U.S. foreign assistance.

This brief presents the evidence behind the under-explored relationship between women’s reproductive and economic empowerment.