This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Iftikhar Nizami, the former country director of ActionAid in Pakistan, received a government notice to shut down his NGO’s operations in December, he was stunned. In 2005, the South Africa-based organization…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From government bodies, United Nations agencies, Red Cross societies, and NGOs to 50,000 individual contributors in 40 countries, an interconnected global community is using remotely-sensed imagery from satellites and drones to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each time we discover a new technology, most of the time it yields huge benefits. But there’s also a chance we discover a technology with more destructive power than we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On December 4, 2000, the United Nations declared December 18 as International Migrants Day. The U.N. did so to recognize the increasing number of migrants around the world and to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To empower women and girls in the patriarchal Maasai society in Kenya, young men must become part of the conversation about gender equality and girls’ education and advocate for girls’…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa’s Agenda 2063 are now well underway. Notably, though, policymakers and other stakeholders often encounter challenges when trying to measure countries’ progress towards…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From August 2017 to January 2018, an estimated 650,000 Rohingyas, out of a population of a million, fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh to escape a campaign of arson, rape,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the protracted crisis in Northeastern Nigeria seems to be making a turn toward improvement, a wave of militant attacks in 2017 paired with ongoing constraints around limited access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reforming the UN: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres assumed his five-year term exactly one year ago, putting reform, prevention, and peace at the heart of his agenda. Delivering on the Sustainable Development…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Handshake is developing a new online platform stored securely on the blockchain to help ensure safe and just working conditions for the some 150 million migrant workers worldwide. We don’t want to make any assumptions about this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before adding an international organization to its platform, YourCause team properly vets each organization to make sure that funds are being properly used for philanthropic activity. Here are this month’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We define an episode of state-led mass killing as the death of at least 1,000 noncombatant civilians over the course of a year or less due to deliberate actions of…