The Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute convened a public discussion on the future of human rights in US foreign policy.

To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP)’s Women’s Initiative  convened leading policymakers and advocates from around the world to release a new report, Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage

Efforts to keep girls in school and other actions to reduce child marriage are being disrupted by economic shocks, cutbacks in global humanitarian assistance, retrenchment in women’s rights and the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to researchers and experts in international development.

The Women’s Initiative at Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), has released a new report titled Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage.

In a wide-ranging conversation hosted by Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics, Mona Lena Krook discussed her new book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, which examines how to achieve greater gender parity in politics.

IGP’s Women’s Initiative hosted the Gambian human rights activist Jaha Dukureh to discuss child marriage and the future of women’s rights, drawing on her experience as a survivor of child marriage.

A January 29 roundtable at SIPA explored how human rights law strengthens enforcement and protection for survivors in the United States.

IGP's Technology & Democracy Initiative and IGP's Women's Initiative convened an expert panel to discuss how governments, multilateral institutions, and technology companies can take action to address online violence, abuse, and harassment.

IGP Women’s Initiative Director Jennifer Klein spoke on a panel titled “Charting a New Course for Care Policy,” about the policy solutions needed to address the caregiving crisis in the United States.

In this second installation of the conflict-related sexual violence virtual roundtable series, a panel of global experts discussed legal representation, reparations, recognition for children born of wartime rape, and community rebuilding as essential pathways to justice for survivors