This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a recent Sunday, as the sun rose over the spires of Angkor Wat, five thousand saffron-clad monks shuffled into the park grounds. They — along with thousands more students,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas after 2019, it announced recently, winning praise from civil society for its “true climate leadership.” The announcement was met with whoops and sustained…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” reads Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here are six facts you may not know about…
The SDGs represent a very high level of ambition not only because of the breadth of the issues involved ranging from poverty to inequality to safeguarding the environment but also…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The future of carbon capture and storage in the U.S. – as well as the fate of the U.S. coal industry – may be a bleak one, due to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The philanthropy in Africa is taking a center stage and role for the first time in its history. Its role is majorly in questions of development and sustainability. It is also…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When we put a commercial of Messi during a large athletic tournament or soccer game talking about the SDGs, we reach audiences that previously hadn’t heard of the SDGs. Young…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cambodia’s military chief has vowed to “smash the teeth” of anyone who does not support Prime Minister Hun Sen, who said it would be worth sacrificing 200 lives to stay in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Access to food and medicine, a recurrent weapon of war in Syria, has emerged again as a political flash point: The Syrian government’s most powerful ally, Russia, is balking at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The death penalty should be abolished because it violates basic human rights. More so, it relies on a system fraught with error, discriminates based on race and socio-economic status, takes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Host country President Alassane Ouattara called discussions “constructive” during the closing ceremony, and said that conversations extended beyond a donor-recipient tone, and leaned more towards a collaborative effort to build…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A study carried out by the United Nations refugee agency has revealed disturbing details about a little-known side to the Syrian conflict: sexual violence against boys and men. The report,…