Americans Really Trust the World Health Organization Right Now Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2020A new scientific poll shows that Americans are giving the World Health Organization high marks right now. The poll, conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of Better World Campaign from March 06 - 09, queried 2,...
WHO Launches COVID-19 “Solidarity Response Fund” To Mobilize Private Sector Coronavirus Response Mark Leon Goldberg March 13, 2020The World Health Organization is seeking to mobilize $675 million through April to support Covid-19 preparedness and response efforts around the world. So far, governments are the key contributors to this effor...
Why the Agreement Between the Taliban and the United States is Definitely Not a “Peace Deal” for Afghanistan Mark Leon Goldberg March 12, 2020The U.S.-Taliban Deal, Explained On February 29th, the United States and the Taliban entered into an agreement that would see the complete pullout of US troops from Afghanistan. In return, the Taliban would re...
How the Democratic Republic of the Congo Defeated the Ebola Outbreak Mark Leon Goldberg March 10, 2020Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South AfricaThe last patient receiving treatment for Ebola was recently discharged from an Ebola Treatment Centre in the Democratic Republic of ...
We Should Be Thanking Our Lucky Stars for the World Health Organization Right Now Mark Leon Goldberg March 5, 2020On Monday, March 2 the director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was giving his 22nd press conference on the coronavirus in nearly as many days. The news of the day was grim. ...
The UN is Warning of a Massive Crisis as Desert Locusts Ravage East Africa Mark Leon Goldberg February 26, 2020Desert locusts are killing crops across East Africa and in so doing, threatening the food supply of millions of people.On Tuesday, three top United Nations officials issued a joint public statement urging g...
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa. The UN is very worried. Joanne Lu February 19, 2020Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa and have just made landfall in South Sudan, the country’s agriculture minister announced on Tuesday, sparking fears of a severe food ...
The Trump Administration Seeks Massive Cuts to the World Health Organization and UN Peacekeeping. Also, the Total Elimination of Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg February 11, 2020The budget request released this week by the White House recommends large cuts to US payments to several United Nations entities. This includes a 53% cut to the World Health Organization, which is at the front ...
There Has Been a Staggering Increase in Hunger in the Sahel Region. Violence and Climate Change are to Blame Joanne Lu February 5, 2020While the world’s attention is turned to the coronavirus outbreak, three UN agencies warned on Tuesday about another crisis that has been looming in the background: an alarming hunger spike in Burkina Faso, Mal...
