How a fight between the USA and EU over a carbon cap and trade scheme for commercial airlines informs the debate about Palestinian membership to UN agencies.
You gotta love Hans Rosling. In this video, the excitable academic breaks down the data on the relationship between child mortality and fertility rates to construct an argument for smart, targeted foreign aid.
Congress can't muster the will to change laws prohibiting American funding of UN agencies that admit Palestine as a member. Yet a vast majority of countries around the world support Palestine's membership to a growing number of UN Agencies.
Less than 20% of the Afghan Security Forces can read or write at a basic level of a first grader. Guess which UN agency runs literacy programs for the Afghan National Police?