Cyclone Idai Has Caused Massive Devastation in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe Mark Leon Goldberg March 19, 2019Cyclone Idai is one of the most destructive storms to hit this region of Africa in decades. The death toll is still unknown, but likely to be in the thousands. Hundreds of thousands of people in Zimbabwe, Malaw...
UN Correspondent Chat, With Carole Landry of AFP Mark Leon Goldberg March 18, 2019Today's episode is the second installment of the new series "UN Correspondent Chat." As the name suggests, this series includes wide ranging conversations with in-house reporters at the United Nations who discu...
Map of the Day: Where Women Serve in Parliament Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2019Rwanda has the highest percentage of female parliamentarians (61%) and Micronesia the lowest (0%), according to a new survey of the gender balance of hundreds of parliaments around the world.The survey is c...
CNN’s Clarissa Ward Spent 36 Hours With the Taliban. This is What She Learned Mark Leon Goldberg March 14, 2019I caught up with CNN's Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward not long after she returned from reporting inside Taliban controlled territory in Afghanistan. She is one of the only western journalists t...
The White House Seeks to Eliminate Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg March 12, 2019The budget request released by the White House this week includes massive cuts to international affairs spending, including deep cuts to the State Department and USAID. But also included in the Trump administra...
The “Remain in Mexico” Policy is Failing Asylum Seekers at the Southern US Border Mark Leon Goldberg March 11, 2019In late January, the Trump administration began a pilot program on the border between Tijuana and San Diego in which migrants who claim asylum are sent back to wait in Mexico as their asylum claims are processe...
Only Six Countries In the World Have Full Gender Equality in the Work Place Mark Leon Goldberg March 8, 2019One way to measure systemic gender discrimination is to survey the kinds of laws that are on the that either stymie or facilitate the participation of women in the work force.To that end, the World Bank pub...
Is Algeria on the Verge of an “Arab Spring” Moment? Mark Leon Goldberg March 6, 2019For the past several weeks Algeria has been rocked by mass protests that harken to the Arab Spring. The protests are peaceful and enjoy wide support among diverse sections of Algerians -- and they could bring d...
New Gallup Poll: Is Donald Trump Causing a Spike in American Support for the UN? Mark Leon Goldberg March 5, 2019On March 4, the Gallup Organization released the latest results from a long term polling project of American attitudes towards the UN. It finds that we are in the midst of a surge in support for the United Nati...
