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Peacebuilding is in crisis. This year begun with wars burning in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine – not to mention less-covered but still deadly conflicts from Myanmar to Haiti.Worldwide, diplomatic efforts to end violence are ……

If not properly managed, heavy metals such as arsenic can accumulate in landfills and leach into soils and groundwater.

Getting a diagnosis of a rare disease is a devastating experience. Not recognizing the name of the condition is part of it, but even more draining is the rollercoaster of…

Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape (remember? it was likely your first web browser), and now a leading venture capitalist, coined the phrase “software eats the world” to reflect the power…

Rachel Carson and Greta Thunberg are household names, but the list of female environmentalists throughout history is long. Like many fields, the accomplishments of women in environmental work have often been overshadowed…

For Mebrhit Hailay, a 28-year-old resident of Shire, Tigray, providing at least one meal a day for her three children had proved to be the exception, not the norm. A BBC…

Up to 12,000 casualties were reported from worldwide climate disasters in 2023, according to Save the Children, across roughly 240 climate events including floods, storms and wildfires. Amid a reported tenfold increase in worldwide…

This Women’s History Month, we are marking the progress being made towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender Equality by highlighting an emerging theme in LISC’s lending portfolio: Gender Lens Investing. A fast-growing…

A generation ago, polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. Many countries have now eliminated polio, and our generation has the chance to eradicate it entirely.

COVID-19 has made very visible how climate change will affect us all on a global scale, which has stirred renewed energy to ‘build back better’ through climate resiliency. Some of…

Advocating for human rights is tough. Frontline activists put years of dedication and commitment to the deeply held belief that all people deserve a life of dignity. Yet for large human…

Every girl and boy deserves an equal chance to survive and thrive. As the leading expert on childhood, Save the Children has been championing equal rights for every child for over 100…