This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Advocates campaigning for refugees to have access to safe abortion in humanitarian settings say they have made major progress at a recent high-level meeting — but they added that “political sensitivities”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After focusing on industries like coal and weapons, Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is turning its attention to fashion. Together with UNICEF, the world’s biggest wealth fund is setting up…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Newspapers have reported on people unaffected by the earthquakes posing as victims in order to claim assistance meant for those who lost their homes. In Oaxaca a man claiming to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, the United Nations joins in observing “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” to draw attention to the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. This year,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Achieving gender equality and the full empowerment of women is the answer to ending violence against women, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said recently, calling for collective global action on this cause.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Johan Mooij expects food supplies in Yemen’s capital of Sana to run out in about six weeks. Mooij is the Yemen country director for CARE, one of several dozen humanitarian…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The European Union has pledged hundreds of millions of euros for the ‘Khartoum Process’, a multinational effort to manage migration from the Horn of Africa to Europe. In Sudan, it supports…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By 2030 diseases associated with wealth will kill more people in sub-Saharan Africa than diseases associated with poverty. The sharp increase in diseases linked to lifestyle, or noncommunicable diseases (NDCs), is putting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Why did Invisible Children dissolve? There were two main reasons why the organization was forced to discontinue its efforts: the misrepresentation of facts and causation and the impacts of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the six years since the Syrian crisis began to push refugees into Lebanon, the U.N. Children’s Agency has managed to reach several previously unattainable goals. Lebanon’s entire school curriculum is up…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The intractable war in Yemen that has been laying waste to the northern half of the country for nearly three years became even more dismal in early November when Saudi…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The European Union’s 2018 budget is set to include more money for humanitarian aid, but less development spending than the year before, angering nongovernmental organizations that say Brussels has fallen…