SIPA Professors Rachel Vogelstein and Yasmine Ergas discuss the state of women’s rights today, tracing progress since the Beijing Declaration and examining how recent setbacks risk reversing hard-won gains from the past three decades.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the staggering economic burden and human rights implications of child marriage, which affects 12 million girls annually.

A new report produced by the Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative shines a light on the detrimental impacts and root causes that drive child marriage across the globe. The report was commissioned by Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In, with support from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, faculty advisory board chair of the Institute of Global Politics.

Cathleen Jeanty MIA ’27 navigated the throngs at this year’s Munich Security Conference as a member of the press, but what she encountered revealed quite a lot about the state of international politics.

Rajan Menon, senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute, rejects the assumptions that Europe can't defend itself without the U.S., claiming that this mindset is the product of decades of American strategy. Menon shows how Europe's chosen dependence could be overcome, and why the Trump era makes it both possible and necessary.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Wednesday about efforts to end child marriage at the Institute of Global Politics' Women's Initiative.

Jack Lew, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, discusses the war in Iran, stating that "I haven't heard a clear explanation of what the goal is. The administration could've done a much better job explaining why we're committing U.S. troops to this battle."

Rory Callison shares how studying social policy grounded his understanding of politics in the everyday realities that shape people’s lives.

“We’re at this pivotal moment where we could either continue to make progress or go backwards,” said Rachel Vogelstein, a professor and director of the Institute of Global Politics Women’s Initiative at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She is co-author of a new report on the economic costs of child marriage.

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.