This Syrian Teen Used Her Swimming Skills to Save a Boat Full of Refugees. Now She’ll Compete in the OlympicsMeet 18-year-old Yusra Mardini, who is one of ten athletes the International Olympic Committee announced today will compete in Rio...
Germany Recognizes Armenian Genocide. Will This Upend the Refugee Deal?Today, the German Parliament voted to recognize as “genocide” the massacre of Armenians a century ago. The decision of Germany to weigh...
Beyond Bathrooms in North Carolina: UN Issues New Global Report on Transphobia and Homophobia in SchoolsThe debate over the safety and welfare of transgender and gay school kids is something that is raging well beyond...
The World Humanitarian Summit: A PreviewThe international community meets next week in Istanbul for the first ever World Humanitarian Summit. In many ways, the historic...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...