If the 65 Million Refugees Were A Country, This is What It Would Look LikeAhead of the UN Summit on Refugees and Migration, several key people in the refugee rights field met at the...
There Are Far More Migrants Dying At Sea Than You Probably RealizeAccording to the International Organization for Migration, for at least the third year in a row the Mediterranean represents the...
Map of the Day: What Countries Have Ratified The Paris Climate Agreement?Today’s map comes from the World Resources Institute, which runs the ever helpful “Paris Agreement Tracker” that shows which countries,...
The UN General Assembly Kicks off Today. Here’s What that Actually MeansThe 71st United Nations General Assembly officially kicks off today. The big show starts next week, when heads of state...
Here’s what you need to know about today’s straw poll to pick the next UN Secretary GeneralUpdated with results, below. The Security Council holds its fourth straw poll today to weigh members’ preferences for who should...
Are South Sudanese Forces Deliberately Targeting Americans? Is the UN next?Colum Lynch has an explosive scoop in Foreign Policy reporting an incident in July in which a convoy of American diplomats...
This new data on children who are migrants and refugees will shock youUnicef revealed some shocking new data on the number of children around the world who have been dislocated. The report,...
Report: Women in Africa face profound gender inequalities and those inequalities do great economic harm to individuals and nationsThe UN Development Program’s flagship report on development in Africa–the Africa Human Development 2016 report — was released this week. It focuses...
How the UN is Shoring Up the Historic Peace Deal in ColombiaThis week, Colombia entered into an indefinite ceasefire between the government and FARC, the largest rebel group in the country,...