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Yasmine Sherif is Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait.

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  1. Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand
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    Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand

    Aug 16, 2024 Yasmine Sherif urges public- and private-sector donors to increase funding for non-formal schooling in the country.

  2. An Opening in the Fight to Educate Afghan Girls
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    An Opening in the Fight to Educate Afghan Girls

    Dec 13, 2023 Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif urge leaders to establish a communication channel with Taliban officials who support reversing the school ban.

  3. The Taliban Cannot Defeat Women
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    The Taliban Cannot Defeat Women

    Jan 20, 2023 Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif sense fissures in the regime following the latest crackdown on access to education.

  4. The World Cup’s Education Goal
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    The World Cup’s Education Goal

    Nov 18, 2022 Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif see the event as an occasion to push the Taliban to end its ban on girls' education.

  5. Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back
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    Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back

    Oct 17, 2022 Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif call on the international community to help the country’s girls secure their right to an education.

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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Carla Norrlöf

    In betting that the economic fallout from his sweeping new tariffs will be worth the gains in border security, US President Donald Trump is gambling with America’s long-term influence and prosperity. In the future, more countries will have even stronger reasons to try to reduce their reliance on the United States.

     thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.
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    The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

    Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    A Sputnik Moment for AI?

    Daron Acemoglu

    While America’s AI industry arguably needed shaking up, the news of a Chinese startup beating Big Tech at its own game raises some difficult questions. Fortunately, if US tech leaders and policymakers can take the right lessons from DeepSeek's success, we could all end up better for it.

     considers what an apparent Chinese breakthrough means for the US tech industry, and innovation more broadly.
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    Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

    Karen Rønde urges all publishers to bargain collectively to secure the fair compensation quality journalism requires.
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    East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0

    Takatoshi Ito warns America’s key regional allies to be prepared to make concessions to the new US administration.
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    Africa Needs Mineral Security, Too

    Daniel M. Franks & Rüya Perincek highlight the necessity of building local value chains tailored to the continent’s economic realities.
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    Mitigating AI’s Climate Costs

    Sherif Elsayed-Ali proposes ways to realize the technology’s potential while mitigating its massive carbon footprint.
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    What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Venezuela?

    Moisés Naím thinks the Maduro regime’s fate – and the country’s future – will be largely shaped by US policymakers.
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    Does Globalization Have a Future?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. worries that we will end up with only harmful long-distance dependencies, rather than beneficial ones.

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