Irma is Heading for Haiti. Is the Country Prepared?The strongest Hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic is poised to strike the country in the region least able to...
Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks LikeThe Rohingya are a long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an...
New Research Finds a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak Violent ConflictThe high price of getting married can lead young men to take up arms. That is the conclusion of a...
Map of the Day: Historic Flooding in South Asia Cuts a MUCH wider path than HarveyAs the US reels from the lasting affects of Hurricane Harvey, a historically powerful storm arriving at the peak of...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Just Doing His JobPrince Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As such, it is his job...
Trump Wants a Wall on the Border With Mexico. But a new UN Report Shows a Better Way to Stop Illegal Migration to the USIn a rabble-rousing speech in Arizona last week, President Trump doubled-down on his pledge to build a wall on the...
The UN called for a “War on Plastic” and Kenya just went nuclearIn February 2017, the UN Environment Program called for a “war on ocean plastic” — a crackdown on things like...
Podcast: Former Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New “Fuel Bank” Can Curb Nuclear ProliferationThe world may just have gotten a little bit safer. In Kazakstan this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency is...
Is Harvey the Latest Freakish Weather Event Linked to Climate Change?Houston is America’s fourth largest city. It is currently being inundated with historic rainfall, stranding many thousands of people and...