Four Ways We Can Use Land Better to Avoid Food Shortages and Prevent a Climate Crisis Joanne Lu August 9, 2019The verdict is in: Humans and climate change are putting the land on which we live under immense and growing pressure. But that same land could be part of the solution. On Thursday the UN’s Intergovernmental P...
UN Report Finds Opioids Are Responsible for Nearly 400,000 Deaths Worldwide Joanne Lu July 17, 2019The global opioid crisis is worse than we thought. Thanks to new and more precise data from India and Nigeria – two countries that are among the 10 most populous in the world – the World Drug Report 2019, publ...
Countries with the Highest Murder Rates, Ranked in a New UN Report Joanne Lu July 12, 2019Armed conflicts are becoming deadlier as violence intensifies, but a new United Nations (UN) report reveals that actually, intentional homicide kills far more people. In fact, according to the hefty Global Stu...
Major Study Finds that the Global Gag Rule Significantly Increases Abortion Rates Joanne Lu June 27, 2019In a first-ever study of its kind, public health researchers have found that prohibiting U.S. aid to any organization that performs or provides counseling on abortion actually increases abortions – and not just...
The Most (and Least) Peaceful Countries in the World, Ranked Joanne Lu June 18, 2019Afghanistan is now the least peaceful country in the world, replacing Syria, according to the latest Global Peace Index published Wednesday. Meanwhile, Iceland is retaining its position as the most peaceful cou...
Asian Countries Are Off Track to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Joanne Lu June 7, 2019Bad news for Asia and the Pacific: Not a single country in the region is on track to achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, a recent UN report has warned. Although progress has been m...
These Ten Worst Corporate Tax Havens in the World Are Stifling Sustainable Development Joanne Lu May 31, 2019The UN and other international organizations have warned that tax systems must be strengthened to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But according to the Tax Justice Network, multinational corporati...
Here is How Close the World’s Poorest Countries Are to Acheiving Universal Health Coverage Joanne Lu May 24, 2019The world is nowhere near achieving universal health coverage by 2030, a new index by Save the Children shows. The Universal Health Coverage and Accountability Index looks at 81 countries that account for 90 p...
A New UN Report Details Food Crises Around the World Joanne Lu April 10, 2019Every year for the last three years, persistent conflict, climate shocks and economic instability have driven more than 100 million people around the world into crisis-levels acute hunger or worse. Last year, ...
