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International Affairs

Over the years, the Joint Center has addressed a number of critical foreign policy issues—including democracy and governance, economic development and growth, HIV/AIDS and public health, the empowerment of women and youth, the environment and global climate change, and the role of African Americans and other minorities in the formation and implementation of US foreign policy.

Funding for the Joint Center’s International programs has been provided by U.S. Foundations and corporations, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and foreign assistance agencies including AusAID (Australia), the United Kingdom (DFID), and the European Union (EU).

 

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In 2005, black women, with an incarceration rate of 156 per 100,000 persons, were more than twice as likely as Latina women and three times as likely as white women to be in prison. About 70 percent of the women in prison—many of whom were imprisoned for drug violations—have children under the age of eighteen. Learn more