Ebola is Officially on the Ropes in Sierra LeoneThe World Health Organization announced a big milestone today: for the first time in over a year, the country at...
Is Kazakhstan’s Olympic Loss A Win for Human Rights?On July 31st the city of Almaty, in eastern Kazakhstan, quietly mourned. Across the border in China, Beijing celebrated: earlier...
Why Stopping Peacekeeper Abuse is So Politically Difficult. And So Very ImportantIn a rather extraordinary move, Ban Ki Moon today demanded the resignation of the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in...
Violence Against Women Mars US Immigration Detention CentersThey came fleeing violence, but just found more of it. Central American women, detained in Texas last year, alleged sexual...
International Food Assistance for Iraqis is Running Out, And for No Good ReasonIraq is in the midst of several overlapping crises. It’s a tinderbox that already exploded: A barbaric extremist group controls...
UNESCO is Fighting a Different Kind of Culture WarIn war, there are casualties. Beyond the obvious human toll of people killed, injured and displaced, increasingly cultural heritage is...
East Asians Attitudes Toward LGBT Rights are Rapidly Shifting. But Probably Not Fast Enough Is anal sex a human right? On the day of South Korea’s LGBT pride parade on June 28, Evangelical...
New Research: UN Awards Half a Billion of Contracts to US CompaniesThe United Nations delivers more than just peace and security around the world. It’s also a fairly large employer and...
Infographic of the Day: The World’s Most Neglected Humanitarian EmergenciesToday’s map comes from a UN entity called the Central Emergency Response Fund. It shows where some $70 million of...