Female genital mutilation harms women. So why are there so few medical options for reducing that harm?The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM)....
There’s a “Gender Data Gap” that’s standing in the way of the Sustainable Development GoalsThere is a persistent problem problem in international development: the data just aren’t that good. This is particularly true with...
10 Questions with Women Deliver CEO Katja IversenThis week, more than 5,000 people from 169 countries have gathered at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen to discuss...
Kenya Wants To Shut Down the World’s Largest Refugee Camp. This is Bad News For More Than the Obvious ReasonsAs the international community prepares to address the ongoing needs of the global refugee crisis at the World Humanitarian Summit...
Yellow Fever is Back. How Worried Should We Be?Yellow fever is back. On May fifth, the World Health Organization issued an alarming yellow fever “situation report.” In it, the...
Sadiq Khan, The World’s Mayor?Last week London elected the first Muslim mayor of an European Union capital. Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani...
Justin Trudeau Just Gave the Fight Against The Biggest Global Killers a Serious Shot in the ArmThe Global Fund is a giant pool of money created in 2002 to address the three leading killers around the...
Extreme inequality is expensive and destructive. But there is something we can do about it on a global scaleInequality is the issue of our time. The gap between rich and poor has ceased closing; instead it’s getting worse....
A Summit Underway in DC is the Future of International Climate DiplomacySo the Paris Agreement has been signed. Now what? That basic question is driving a UN-backed two day forum in...