Can a New UN Treaty Stop Plastic Pollution Worldwide?The UN has a solid track record when it comes to environmental treaties. To be sure, governments are still far...
Sudan’s Most Horrible YearThe single largest humanitarian crisis in the world turns one year old today. Since a full-scale civil war erupted in...
Can UNRWA Survive?The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, better known as UNRWA, was established in 1949 to support Palestinians displaced during...
What Happened at the UN Commission on the Status of Women This Year?The Commission on the Status of Women concludes this week at the United Nations. The CSW, as it is known,...
Why Haiti Has Taken a Turn for the Even WorseThe security and humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated sharply over the last several days. The country had been ensnared...
Why Confiscated Russian Assets Must Pay For Ukraine’s ReconstructionWestern countries have seized hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years...
From Afghanistan to Ukraine to Gaza: Politico’s Alexander Ward on How Biden’s Foreign Policy EvolvedAlexander Ward ia national security reporter for POLITICO and author of the book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American...
What Happens When a Dozen Global Development Funds Need to be Replenished at the Same Time?In this Global Dispatches podcast episode, Clemence Landers of the Center for Global Development discusses the upcoming replenishments of several...
Why Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso Are Leaving ECOWASOn January 28th, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger jointly announced they were leaving the Economic Community of West African States,...