Map of the Day: Where the Press is Not FreeToday’s map, in honor of the UN’s World Press Freedom Day, comes from Reporters Without Borders, which documents crimes committed...
One year after the Nepal earthquake, clean water is still in short supplyBindu Nagarkoti pulls a blanket over her 10-month-old baby and gets ready for an afternoon full of household chores and...
Women are trying to rebuild Nepal house by house. But patriarchy is standing in the wayIn a hilltop village in Nagarkot, Nepal, 24-year-old Prapti Tamang looks at the scattered remains of her old home –...
Malaria cases are plummeting worldwide. But there’s one place it’s making a comebackEd note. This op-ed, by Thierry Diagana and Nick White, originally appeared in Project Syndicate and is reprinted with permission. ...
Why Do These Hacking Deaths Keep Happening in Bangladesh?On April 25, a US Embassy worker, employee of USAID, and editor of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine was one of...
The entire world is changing polio vaccines. That’s a good thing.Polio is irrelevant in most of the world. Once the terror of many childhoods, for most people it exists only...
4 Charts and 1 Stephen Curry Explain How Humanity is Winning the Fight Against MalariaWhat a difference 15 years makes. In 2000 839,000 people died each year from Malaria. Last year, that figure was...
An Historic Day at the UNA world record will be set for global agreements today. An expected 165 governments are set to sign the Paris...
Why Did the USA Just Deny a Visa to a Heroic Syrian NGO Leader Visiting to Pick Up an Award?The head of the Syrian Civil Defense, or White Helmets as they are popularly known, has won a prestigious international humanitarian award....