This is the World’s First Fully Solar Powered Airport. (It Serves as Many People as Dulles Airport)The United Nations Environment is bestowing its highest annual honor on an airport in India for being the first airport...
UN Releases Alarming Data on Lack of Breastfeeding WorldwideThe World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are continuing to push for legal restrictions on...
PODCAST: How Much Progress Are We Making Towards the Sustainable Development Goals? At the United Nations in mid-July officials gathered for an annual checkup on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals....
Nelson Mandela’s Legacy was to Advance African Unity. I’m Living ProofOn 18 July 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born. In 1944, he became part of the African National Congress (ANC),...
It’s been three years since the world agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals. So how are we doing? That is the central question driving a series of meetings this week at the United Nations, known as the “High...
The USA is Closer Than Ever to Reforming its Inefficient Food Aid ProgramAdvocates for better food aid are hoping they’ll finally see long-awaited changes become law. Last week, Senators Bob Corker (R-TN)...
Chart of the Day: The Number of Unintended Pregnancies Drop WorldwideToday’s chart comes from the Guttmacher Institute, with data drawn from a just-published Lancet study that shows the rates of...
Why We Lie About AidA provocative new book examines the politics of the debate on foreign aid. Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at...
A School in India Takes a Unique Approach to Disrupting Intergenerational Poverty Shanti Bhavan is a school in the Tamil Nadu state of southern India that serves children from the Dalit...
