A Paris Agreement for the Shipping Industry John Light April 18, 2018The UN agency that oversees shipping, the International Maritime Organization, adopted its first-ever deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions last week. On Friday, the IMO, which has more than 170 member nation...
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Joanne Lu April 17, 2018For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that are “credibly suspected” of carrying out sexual violence during conflict. The report, p...
The 5 most under-reported humanitarian crises that are happening right now Madeline Moitozo April 13, 2018President Trump started dominating the American news cycle before he was even elected, and the soap opera that has unfolded from his twitter feed alone since then has kept headlines and newsrooms constantly foc...
Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning) John Light April 11, 2018In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be ...
UPDATE: A Chemical Weapon Has Been Used in Syria. What Does the Security Council Do Now? Mark Leon Goldberg April 9, 2018UPDATE: The Security Council is meeting again today, potentially on separate resolutions offered by the United States and Russia. The key difference between the two resolutions is that the United States wants a...
Map of the Day: Where Investment in Renewables is Booming Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2018Today's map comes from a new UN-backed report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018. As the name suggests the report, which was a joint effort of the United Nations Environment Program and Bloomberg...
The White House Turns to the UN to Fight ISIS’ Re-Emergence in Syria. (But Denies it the Funding to Do So) Mark Leon Goldberg April 4, 2018The White House sought to address some confusion over President Trump's suggestion yesterday that American troops should quit Syria. The statement released this morning was still somewhat cryptic, but it did un...
It’s Been Four Months Since Robert Mugabe’s Ouster. Has Zimbabwe Changed for the Better? Mako Muzenda April 3, 201824 November 2017 was an electrifying day for Zimbabweans. For the first time in 30 years, they would have a new president. Robert Mugabe, who for so long had dominated and controlled Zimbabwe's political and ec...
Podcast: Bangladeshi Immigrant Rais Bhuiyan Survived a Hate Crime and Fought to Save from Execution the Man Who Shot Him Mark Leon Goldberg April 2, 2018On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan was working behind the counter at a gas station outside Dallas, Texas when a man named Mark Stroman walked in brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.Stroman was a self-proc...
