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Jan 12, 2025 | 
bushcenter.org | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
Africa’s potential is limitless, but America’s focus on the continent has significantly declined over the past decade. This needs to change. And fast. Home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population, nearly 2.5 billion people will reside in Africa by 2050, most under 30. Africans of the world’s young people in the next five years. By midcentury, nearly a quarter of the world’s working age population will call the continent home.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bushcenter.org | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
Read The Taliban have manipulated polio vaccine campaigns. It's time for the global community to act. As the global community marks World Polio Day, the world can’t overlook the Taliban’s manipulation of polio vaccine campaigns in Afghanistan. Why this matters Afghanistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic (the other is Pakistan).
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
When the Taliban criminalized the voices and faces of Afghan women in public in August, the global community once again offered nothing more than platitudes in response to the Taliban’s enforcement of gender apartheid. Adding insult to injury, the United Nations Security Council voted to approve three new travel ban exemptions for sanctioned Taliban leaders shortly after the regime’s most recent assault on women. This included travel to Russia, Uzbekistan, Cameroon, and Turkey.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
bushcenter.org | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
For the first time in Olympic history, female and male athletes will be equally represented in Paris – a milestone that must serve as a call to action for greater progress in support for women everywhere. Nowhere is attention and action needed more than in response to the Taliban’s haunting use of gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
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May 8, 2024 | 
bushcenter.org | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Valerie Dowling
2 RECOMMENDATIONS Afghan and Iranian women are some of the most prominent voices working to advance freer and fairer futures in their countries. But women-led efforts often face significant barriers to financial support and capacity-building tools to aid the advancement of their objectives.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
bushcenter.org | Natalie Gonnella-Platts
Watch Since retaking Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have focused on expanding their business opportunities. Taliban leaders are looking to increase their influence on the international stage and line their pocketbooks while the Afghan population, especially women and children, suffer greatly. Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of Global Policy at the George W.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin |Alexis Ludwig
Political campaigns are not rocket science–but in our current electoral season, we've seen more circus clown antics than academic argument. This phenomenon has me rethinking what I thought I had learned by observing some of the world’s most fragile democracies as a career diplomat—that American democracy was uniquely resilient and those who uphold it deeply committed to its tenets and principles. The other possibility is simply that I learned the wrong thing.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin |Alexander Lukashuk
Two and a half years after losing the presidential election to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus’ strongman Alexander Lukashenko is still finding new enemies to punish for the political scare he received in August 2020. Late last month, former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Ihar Karnei was sentenced to three years in prison and given a hefty fine for “participation in an extremist organization”—the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin
A 1931 book of essays titled If It Had Happened Otherwise containsGerman-Swiss writer Emil Ludwig’s chapter, “If the Emperor Frederick Had Not Had Cancer.” Ludwig has the German ruler living past 1888 and, together with his wife Empress Victoria, leading a liberal German empire with a British-style cabinet. As a consequence, there’s no belligerent “New Course” from son Kaiser Wilhelm II.
