Stories of Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things

International Affairs Fellow

Field-based expertise in stability operations.  Currently studying USAID’s efficacy in carrying out its role in stability operations, using her experience on an Afghan Provincial Reconstruction Team as a case study.

Expertise

Stability operations, post-conflict reconstruction, USAID, civil-military coordination.

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Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy

Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House, 2008). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program.

Expertise
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.

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GONAÏVES, Haiti - Islande Bonne Joseph is sitting in front of me wearing a pretty checked dress, her hair carefully tied back. Her huge smile is warm and heartfelt. Dressed in her Sunday clothes, Islande may look timid but this young woman is anything but shy. When Hurricane Ike hit Gonaïves in Haiti, Islande displayed great courage, leading her neighbors to safety on top of her house as the flood waters rose dangerously high. [Read more →]

In the Islamic state of Mauritania its illegal to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Rape is undefined in the country’s law.

Women on the Front Line: Mauritania (Part 1 of 2)
Women on the Front Line: Mauritania (Part 2 of 2)

Source: UNFPA

Morocco is coming to terms with the human rights abuses of its recent past.

Women on the Front Line: Morocco (Part 1 of 2)
Women on the Front Line: Morocco (Part 2 of 2)

Source: UNFPA