The Radical Potential of Education
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” – bell hooks Voices for Girls’ Education At Women Deliver 2023 in [...]
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): What do we know, and where do we go from here?
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) enables young people to think broadly about the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of sexuality and enhances development of important [...]
The Data Behind Climate Investing: An Earth Day Q&A with Jack DeWaard
With this year’s Earth Day theme of investing as an engine for change, we want to highlight what the Population Council is doing to [...]
Demographic Trends and Population Health: Tackling Inequality in a World of Eight Billion People
In a new BMJ Global Health commentary, Thoai Ngo discusses a shift in the way we tackle interactions between the 3Cs (climate crisis, conflict, [...]
Where was Gender at CIES 2023?
The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), held in Washington D.C. from February 18–22, welcomed a great showing of [...]
The Roots of Gender Inequality Grow Deeper Than Technology Can Reach
Every two minutes, a woman dies from a maternity-related cause. That number is down significantly from two decades ago, but it’s still three times [...]
Advancing the Agenda in Girls’ Education Research
Council researcher Nicole Haberland co-authored a recent piece in CGD Notes, a publication by the Center for Global Development (CGD), together with fellow researchers [...]
Guatemala’s Western Highlands: Addressing Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change
In New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center, Council researchers Jessie Pinchoff and Angel del Valle highlight the connection between [...]