The Top UN Human Rights Official Accurately Called Hungary’s President a Racist. Drama EnsuedThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein called Hungarian President Viktor Orban a “racist” last week because...
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...
PODCAST: Remembering the Armenian Genocide with philanthropist and business leader Noubar AfeyanNoubar Afeyan is a business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2015, along with other decedents of survivors of the 1915...
The UN Created a New Way to Monitor Small Scale Natural Disasters Around the WorldIn UN circles “Sendai” is shorthand for a major 2016 conference about disaster risk reduction, which took place in Sendai,...
Why We Lie About AidA provocative new book examines the politics of the debate on foreign aid. Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at...
The Relationship Between Iran and the Human Rights Council is Extremely Contentious An Iranian government official who is under sanctions by the United States and European Union addressed the UN Human Rights...
PODCAST: Sulome Anderson, journalist and author of a book about the kidnapping of her father, the journalist Terry AndersonSulome Anderson was in utero when her father, the journalist Terry Anderson was kidnapped in Beirut. She met him for...
The World Health Organization Wants You To Worry About “Disease X”Every year, the World Health Organization commissions an expert committee identify the most threatening infectious diseases of the upcoming year....
The Largest Ever Gathering of Americans at the UN is Happening TodayOver 1,800 Americans are heading to the United Nations today as part of the “Global Engagement Summit” today. Those headed...