Donald Trump approved the largest U.S. military budget in history. Russia is ramping up their own arsenal and diplomats are disappearing. But around the world, women are still fighting for peace and security.
Author: Christina Asquith
Christina Asquith is former editor for Across Women’s Lives at PRI’s The World and founder/editor in chief of the Fuller Project for International Reporting, which contributed this story and which works with Peace Is Loud on women, peace and security issues.
This Week in Women: We Need More Seats at Tables Around the World
A delegation from Saudi Arabia was greeted by the president and White House staff for a meeting that didn’t include a single woman on either side. Vermont is now the only state that has never sent a woman to Congress. And in Russia, journalists joined a boycott after a government ethics commission ruled in favor of a high-ranking lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by three female reporters.