Democracy

We Yemenis have lived with this war for over two and a half years. For 1,000 days — day in, day out — we have woken up and gone to…

Amnesty International says the EU is complicit in the abuse of refugees in Libya. The Mediterranean refugee crisis, once the top story on every channel, has fallen out of the…

Recent experience in seven countries has taught us how crucial it is to create a data culture for supply chain by focusing on people as well as technology. This new,…

For several days in late November and early December, the sound of banging pots and pans from protests mixed with gunfire in the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital. Burning tires…

In researching her recent book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, Johanna Neuman dug through archives and discovered that the decades-long battle to pass the 19th…

Align health financing and primary health care goals. As countries progress toward UHC, they grapple with dual challenges of how to provide universal access to essential health services and ensure…

Last year, prospects were looking good for a bipartisan effort in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing. But after long and careful negotiations, one senator almost single-handedly torpedoed the measure: the…

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in 2016 there were 65.6 million people globally who were forcibly displaced, more than ever. Increasingly, the proportion moving to urban areas is…

In every humanitarian crisis, affected communities need information immediately about how to access vital aid services or reconnect with family members. At the same time, they require established feedback mechanisms…

The announcements and pronouncements at French President Emmanuel Macron’s One Planet summit may leave the impression that coal is dead. But it’s too early to count the King out just…

As of Wednesday, the International Center for Social Franchising will be known as Spring Impact. The organization took Devex behind the scenes of its rebrand. Under the new name, the nonprofit hopes…

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Commission will spend more than $600 million on research to help smallholder farmers who face deteriorating growing conditions due to climate change,…