Map of the Day: Every Historic Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the CongoToday’s map comes from the World Health Organization, which released this graphic to help put into context the current ebola...
UN Refugee Agency Reports Increase in Number of Women and Children Fleeing Gang Violence in Central AmericaThe White House press release yesterday, referring to members of a central American criminal gang as “animals” comes as the...
PODCAST: How Shipping Containers Explain the Conflict in YemenYemen is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and the circuitous route and tangled politics that cargo ships...
WHO: Ebola Outbreak Response for the DRC is So Far WorkingAn Ebola outbreak has gripped parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the latest figures from the...
Can the World Health Organization Actually Ban Deadly Trans Fats?This week, the World Health organization called for the elimination of trans fats by 2023. To make this happen, the...
How #JusticeForNoura Became a Global Rallying CryLast week, 19 year-old Noura Hussein was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man who raped her in Sudan....
How Colonialism Explains Female HIV Rates in AfricaAround the world the HIV rates for men and women are more or less equal — except, that is, in...
PODCAST: Understanding Trump’s Jerusalem GambleEditor’s note. This podcast was originally published in December, following news that the Trump administration would move the US embassy in...
A UN Peacekeeping Force is Caught in the Crossfire of Escalating Conflict in the Golan HeightsUN Peacekeepers have been stationed in the Golan Heights since 1974. The mission, known as the United Nations Disengagement Observer...