Cutting the Foreign Aid Budget Is Going to Be Harder than Trump ThinksThe White House yesterday suggested that it is contemplating a massive increase in the defense budget, to be offset by...
WHO Needs 12 New AntibioticsThe World Health Organization released what is a essentially a ‘most wanted list’ of the 12 families of bacteria that...
This is Trump’s First Big Test at the UNThe very first Russia v. USA showdown over Syria is poised to take place at the United Nations in the...
This Syria Expert Thinks the War is Basically OverAs the Syria civil war enters its seventh year, the outcome of the conflict no longer seems in doubt. With...
VIDEO: There is more plastic in the sea, than stars in the galaxyThose microbeads in your face wash are bad news. The United Nations warned this week that more than eight million...
Famine Strikes South Sudan. UN Warns Three Other Countries Could be Next. One of the Biggest Catastrophes of a GenerationFamine kills children first. Famine does not simply mean “lack of food.” Rather it is a threshold against which indicators...
UN Agencies Issue Dire warning on S. Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen and SomaliaA rare joint press conference the Secretary General and heads of the UNDP, OCHA and WFP. “Sounding the alarm on...
Trump Unveils New Deportation PolicyThis move will have broad international implications. “President Trump has directed his administration to more aggressively enforce the nation’s immigration...
PHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief DepotUN Dispatch recently visited a vast complex on the outskirts of Dubai that stores humanitarian relief items for dispatch anywhere...
