This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. CARE International said it investigated 28 cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of community members or of sexual harassment within its organization in 2017, and that 11 members of staff were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All the rage for the better part of the recent decade, predictive analytics are now used in a wide range of fields: predicting which students are in danger of dropping out of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 50 years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African-Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we learned from the Devex #aidtoo campaign, workplace sexual misconduct in global development is much more common that we think — 86 percent of aid workers report knowing a colleague who has experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2015, global leaders signed up to the most ambitious development agenda the world has ever seen, agreeing to 17 sustainable development goals. The pledge was to “leave no one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Larry Nassar was sentenced to a maximum of 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting girls and young women in his care, some watched the proceedings in disbelief. Maya Weinstein, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Black Panther” is notable for a number of reasons. It is the first comic-book movie in decades to have a black protagonist. It was shot by one of the best…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After more than 50 years of religious persecution, these Muslims in Myanmar face what the United Nations has referred to as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the country’s leaders. Survivors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Afghanistan suffered more than 10,000 civilian casualties in 2017, as deadly suicide and complex attacks killed and injured more people than any previous year in the war-torn country, according to the…
In 2006, the slogan #MeToo started as a movement by American activist Tarana Burke as a way to show solidarity with victims of sexual assault. That slogan went viral overnight…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It comes as a shame then that most of his philanthropy work went unreported during his lifetime – a request that the singer himself made to keep knowledge of his charitable donations…
U.N. member states are now more than halfway through a two-year process of developing a new Global Compact for Refugees (CGR)—one that is designed to improve responses to displacement by…