125 Million Reasons to Solve the Humanitarian Financing GapImagine a country of 125 million people, the eleventh most populous nation in the world. This is like no other...
The UN is trying to make it easy for you to diversify your portfolio away from fossil fuelsEarlier this week, the UN played host to the something called the 2016 Investor Summit on Climate Risk. The theme of...
Can the International Community Prevent the Coming Zika Crisis?Earlier today, World Health Organization executive director Margaret Chan announced that the WHO would hold an emergency meeting on Monday...
Shocking Global Stat of the DayYemen, as you know doubt know, is currently in the midst of an awful civil war. The conflict began in...
Can the UN End the Longest Running Civil War in the Western Hemisphere?For the last fifty years, Colombia has been embroiled in a horrendous civil war with FARC insurgents. Some 220,000 people...
The World is Ever Shrinking for Syrians. And Not Just for Refugees.Imagine that you live in Britain. Your brother lives in another country. Your sister and her children live in a...
Why the Burkina Faso Attacks Came at Exactly the Wrong TimeThe capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, fell victim to an unfortunately all too familiar pattern of violence – a hotel...
After Tragedy, a Successful UN Test Case in Peru for Reproductive RightsFifteen years ago in Lima, Peru a 17-year-old girl, K.L., was told her unborn fetus had anencephaly. The birth defect...
Zika Virus – How Worried Should we be, Anyway?Zika is a virus that spreads via mosquito rather than person-to-person. Historically it has been confined to a narrow area...