New Study: Coastal Flooding Could Cost Up to 20% of the Global Economy Mark Leon Goldberg August 5, 2020 Ebru Kirezci, University of Melbourne and Ian Young, University of Melbourne Over the past two weeks, storms pummelling the New South Wales coast have left beachfront homes at Wamberal on the verge of coll...
Another Devastating Humanitarian Crisis is Colliding with COVID-19 in South Asia: Monsoon Floods. Joanne Lu July 28, 2020 More than 9.6 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal have been affected by flooding from this year’s devastating monsoon rains. Homes and crops have been destroyed, families have been stranded, and by go...
The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes More Promising Mark Leon Goldberg July 21, 2020 Oxford immunologist on coronavirus vaccine: our early results look highly promising Numstocker/Shutterstock Rebecca Ashfield, University of Oxford A vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed if we’re to ...
WHO and UNICEF: “Alarming Decline” in Childhood Immunizations Due to COVID-19 Joanne Lu July 17, 2020 For months, health experts working in underimmunized areas have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting life-saving vaccination campaigns, particularly in poor countries. Now, a new report by the Worl...
The Trump Administration’s Decision to Cut Ties With the World Health Organization Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Much Worse Mark Leon Goldberg July 7, 2020 UPDATE II: On July 7th, the Trump administration informed congress that it was withdrawing from the World Health Organization. This triggers a one year withdrawal timeline. Reaction to this move was swift ...
How Different Countries Have Handled COVID-19, Ranked Joanne Lu July 7, 2020 How Countries Responded to COVID-19 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have deployed drastically different responses. According to a new UN report, we’re still in the early phase of this crisi...
A Brief History of the UN Charter Mark Leon Goldberg June 26, 2020 On June 26, 1945, after months of negotiations in the city of San Francisco, representatives from 50 countries signed the Charter of the United Nations. In October that year, after the requisite number of count...
The 10 Most Neglected Refugee and Displacement Crises in the World Joanne Lu June 22, 2020 Millions of people are forced to flee their homes every year as a result of conflict and persecution. But not all these emergencies receive the same amount of attention. In 2019, nine out of the top 10 most neg...
The Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19 is Massively Underfunded Mark Leon Goldberg June 9, 2020 Ed note. This is a guest op-ed from Ann Hollingsworth, Director of Government Relations and Senior Policy Adviser for Refugees International As the COVID-19 global pandemic spreads across the globe, vulnerab...
