France has a Big Opportunity to Help Stabilize the Sahel Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2020Ed note. This is a guest post from Refugees International Senior Advocate for West and Central Africa Alexandra Lamarche Soaring violence and displacement are taking over much of the Sahel. As the situations ...
Getting Humanitarian Relief to Besieged Syrians Is One of the Only Things that Russia and the United States Agrees Upon. Is That About to End? Mark Leon Goldberg January 10, 2020Since the start of conflict in Syria, deep divisions between Russia and the Unites States have stymied the Security Council's ability to engage in meaningful diplomacy to the end the crisis.With the Sec...
Iran Crisis — What Comes Next Mark Leon Goldberg January 9, 2020I spoke to my guest today, Ilan Goldenberg, just a couple hours after Donald Trump addressed the nation following an Iranian missile attack on bases in Iraq. The Iranian attack, of course, was in retaliation to...
Why Banning Iran’s Foreign Minister from Traveling to the United Nations is a Bad Idea Mark Leon Goldberg January 8, 2020The United States has barred Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif from traveling to the United States to attend a United Nations meeting on Thursday. While the United States government broadly has the authority...
One of the World’s Leading Climate Scientists Explains the Link Between the Australia Bush Fires and Climate Change Mark Leon Goldberg January 7, 2020I am a climate scientist on holiday in the Blue Mountains, watching climate change in actionAfter years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m study...
How to Promote Tolerance in Myanmar, a Country that Recently Experienced a Genocide Mark Leon Goldberg January 6, 2020In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya muslims were driven from their homes in Myanmar. At the time, a UN official called this a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing." And today, the government of Myanmar ...
How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg January 1, 2020By Nitya Rao, Professor of Gender & Development, University of East AngliaThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.People who dir...
How the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Saves Lives Mark Leon Goldberg December 23, 2019The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in 2002 as a partnership between governments, philanthropies and civil society. At the time, these three diseases were completely out of cont...
How Narendra Modi’s Hardline Hindu Nationalism is Transforming India Mark Leon Goldberg December 19, 2019India's prime minister Narendra Modi was re-elected to office in a landslide victory for his BJP party. Since then, he has implemented policies that have promoted hardline sectarianism.Modi is a Hindu nati...
