Why the Protests in Hong Kong Have Taken a New Turn Mark Leon Goldberg December 9, 2019Protesters in Hong Kong are once again flexing their muscle. Over the weekend, the largest protests in weeks stretched through downtown Hong Kong as nearly 1 million people took to the streets to demand greater...
The United Nations Predicts The Worst Crises of 2020 Mark Leon Goldberg December 4, 2019The United Nations is planning for a crisis filled 2020. Specifically, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that 168 million people will be in need of some for...
The UN Set a Target to End Aids By 2030. In order to get there Adolescents Living With HIV Need to Get Treatment. Here’s How Mark Leon Goldberg November 26, 2019 A number of factors contribute to the lower rates of uptake of HIV treatment by adolescents. Nic Bothma/EPA Mhairi Maskew, University of the WitwatersrandThe United Nations has set targets to end the AI...
Are We Currently in a “Mass Extinction” Period on Earth? Mark Leon Goldberg November 19, 2019Ed note. This article originally appeared in The Conversation and is republished with permission.For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ec...
Can the Paris Agreement Succeed Without the United States? Mark Leon Goldberg November 12, 2019Ed note. On Nov. 4, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it planned to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 196 countries adopted in 2015. The pact ...
The Most Food Insecure Countries in the World, Ranked Joanne Lu November 5, 2019With just 10 more years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, 43 countries in the world are still facing “serious” levels of hunger, and five have hit “alarming” or “extremely alarming” levels. That’s a...
“Hunger Has No Religion.” How Lebanese Protesters Transcended Sectarianism and Forced the Prime Minister to Resign Mark Leon Goldberg October 29, 2019Ed note. This post from Mira Assaf Kafantaris, of The Ohio State University originally appeared in The Conversation. Religion has shaped Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943. In this mu...
Deportation to Syria could mean death for women, children and LGBTQ refugees in Turkey Mark Leon Goldberg October 23, 2019Ed note. This is a guest post from: Deina Abdelkader, University of Massachusetts LowellTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t limiting his assault on neighboring Syria to attacking Kurdish troops th...
The Security Council Visits South Sudan. Can It Revive a Fledgling Peace Agreement? Mark Leon Goldberg October 22, 2019Ed note. This is a guest post from By Daniel P. Sullivan, Senior Advocate for Human Rights, Refugees International With a deadline looming for peace in South Sudan, a delegation from the United Nations Secu...
