Several New Polls Probe American and Global Attitudes Towards the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg September 24, 2020 A series of new public opinion polls reveals American and international attitudes towards international cooperation and the United Nations. Just weeks before the US elections, the bi-partisan polling team of...
At the UN General Assembly, Trump and Xi Square Off — And Guterres Makes Plea for Common Sense to Prevail Mark Leon Goldberg September 22, 2020 It was always going to be a UN General Assembly like no other, with world leaders delivering pre-recorded remarks which played in the mostly empty UN General Assembly hall. And then, UN Secretary General Ant...
Why Biodiversity is a Big Focus of UNGA This Year Joanne Lu September 18, 2020 Ten years ago, more than 190 countries met in Aichi, Japan to set 20 biodiversity targets that they wished to achieve by the end of 2020, in an effort to preserve the variety of living species and ecosystems on...
A New Map Predicts Which Areas Will Be Most At Risk of Malaria Because of Global Warming Mark Leon Goldberg September 9, 2020 Mark Smith, University of Leeds and Chris Thomas, University of Lincoln Of an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This proportion is more or less the same ...
The Trump Administration’s Decision to Pull out of the World Health Organization is Premised on a Lie Mark Leon Goldberg September 3, 2020 The State Department sent formal notice that the Trump administration intends to fully withdraw from the World Health Organization by the middle of next year. In the meantime, the administration says it will wi...
The Coup in Mali is Pushing a Humanitarian Crisis to the Brink Mark Leon Goldberg August 28, 2020 By Alexandra Lamarche, senior advocate for West and Central Africa at Refugees International. This week, images of Malians celebrating the ousting of an unpopular president have flooded news coverage of the...
A New Study Finds that As Developing Countries Get Richer, People Are *More* Likely to Leave Joanne Lu August 18, 2020 It turns out that as developing countries get richer, migration out of those countries actually increases – at least for a little while. That’s according to a set of new reports published today by the Center fo...
Polio vaccination campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan and Pakistan – the last two countries where the crippling disease has a foothold – after a reported “surge” in cases. Joanne Lu August 14, 2020 Child vaccination drives, including against polio, were stopped in March due to concerns that they might increase the risk of COVID-19 transmission to children, their caregivers and vaccinators. The precautions...
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...
