Refugees who have fled the carnage in Afghanistan are being deported in record numbers Kimberly Curtis June 23, 2017 This has been a particularly bloody "fighting season" in Afghanistan. Now that winter has ended and the opium poppy harvest is over, the annual summer “fighting season” is in full swing in Afghanistan. This ye...
A new UN report just calculated the percentage of women who can’t find work because of sexism Coby Jones June 21, 2017 Do women participate in the workforce at the same rate as men? No, they don’t. Globally, the workforce participation rate for women is 49.4 percent, which is 26.7 percentage points below the global participa...
WATCH: UN Secretary General Invokes Physics to Explain Why American Leadership is Necessary for World Order Mark Leon Goldberg June 21, 2017 In a press conference at the United Nations today, Secretary General Antonio Guterres appealed to the laws of physics to explain why American leadership, despite some recent moves by Donald Trump, is still some...
It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts. Kimberly Curtis June 20, 2017 Today marks World Refugee Day. Once again, this past year was record breaking for refugees and the forcibly displaced, albeit all the wrong records. The number of forcibly displaced in the world hit a record h...
PODCAST: The UN just wrapped up Its first-ever oceans conference. Here’s What happened. Mark Leon Goldberg June 19, 2017 Gregory Stone once lived underwater for 30 days. He is an ocean scientist and author who has spent a career studying and advocating on behalf of our oceans. He's now with an executive vice president with C...
The Bad News? The World Will Begin Running Out of Water By 2050. The Good News? It’s Not 2050 Yet Alanna Shaikh, MPH June 16, 2017 On June 6th, US Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressed the UN Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security. He warned the group that by 2050, we won’t have enough fresh wate...
Is Right Wing Populism on the Decline in Europe? Because of Trump? A Member of the European Parliament Explains. Mark Leon Goldberg June 15, 2017 Marietje Schaake is a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. We caught up shortly after a series of consequential elections in Europe, including the victory of Emmanuel Macron in France an...
The Secretary of State Accused Saudi Arabia’s Foes of Stealing Humanitarian Aid in Yemen. Aid Agencies Do Not Agree Mark Leon Goldberg June 14, 2017 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday about the Trump administration's budget that would massively slash funding to US diplomacy and development init...
This What a Feminist Foreign Policy Looks Like Penelope Starr June 12, 2017 America's neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment. Last week, Canada announced its "first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive public consultations which took place la...
