With the US Pulling Out of Climate Commitments, Two Key UN Bodies Face a Cash Crunch John Light September 15, 2017With the US backing away — haltingly — from international climate negotiations, other countries are stepping up to fill ...
PODCAST: The Rohingya of Myanmar are victims of an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing. What can stop it? Mark Leon Goldberg September 14, 2017Nearly 400,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. That number is increasing by the ...
Can A Better Way to Measure Conflict-Related Deaths Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? Joanne Lu September 13, 2017The UN General Assembly kicked off its 72nd session this week, and its new president, Miroslav Lajčák of Slovakia, has a...
Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island Joanne Lu September 12, 2017Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from M...
The UN Just Slapped New Sanctions on North Korea. Here’s How These Sanctions Are Different Mark Leon Goldberg September 11, 2017The Security Council has unanimously passed a new series of sanctions on North Korea over it's unrelenting quest to bols...
Episode 164: Ambassador John Shattuck Mark Leon Goldberg September 11, 2017John Shattuck is the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, former President of the Central European University...
The 5 Biggest Health Impacts of Massive Hurricanes Alanna Shaikh, MPH September 11, 2017The health impact of Hurricane really consists of two parts – injuries and deaths caused by the actual impacts of the st...
How Can the International Community Do Hurricane Response Better? Mark Leon Goldberg September 8, 2017With Houston still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, Irma causing massive havoc in the Caribbean, and more storms on th...
This hurricane season shows why small islands pushed so hard for climate action John Light September 7, 2017With Hurricane Irma battering much of the Caribbean, currently plowing its way past the Dominican Republic, toward Haiti...
