The Coronavirus Human Rights Crackdown Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2020Governments around the world are using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to consolidate power, erode civil liberties, and crack down on free press.On the line to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is imp...
Massive Swarms of Desert Locusts Are Causing Crisis in East Africa Mark Leon Goldberg April 2, 2020Desert locusts are eating their way through East Africa on a scale not seen in decades. These migratory pests travel from field to field destroying either crops meant for human consumption or grasslands on whi...
How Are Different Countries Handling COVID-19? | A Comparison of Political Systems Mark Leon Goldberg April 2, 2020The world is approaching the one million mark of reported cases of COVID-19.Nearly every country on earth has now reported cases of COVID-19, but the impact of the new coronavirus is not evenly distributed....
How are Global Humanitarian Organizations Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic? Mark Leon Goldberg March 30, 2020Even before COVID-19 spread across the world to become a global pandemic conflicts, crises and natural disasters were taxing the global humanitarian systems. International Non-Governmental Organizations. INGOs...
Do International Criminal Tribunals Actually Deter War Crimes? Mark Leon Goldberg March 23, 2020Can war crimes tribunals prevent war crimes and crimes against humanity? Ever since the Nuremberg Tribunals of Nazi officers following World War Two, the question of whether or not the criminal prosecution of ...
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Effect on Low Income Countries and Global Development Mark Leon Goldberg March 22, 2020The coronavirus pandemic could have major implications for international development. As of now, most of the countries that have been hit hardest by COVID-19 are higher income countries; places like Italy,...
How the Coronavirus Pandemic is Impacting the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg March 16, 2020The United Nations Secretary General says that the UN is "open for business," despite an order that all non-essential staff work remotely. “our work will be done from different locations, using different techno...
A Peace Agreement Ends South Sudan’s Brutal Civil War. Can It Hold? Mark Leon Goldberg March 9, 2020On February 22nd, two long time foes, President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar signed a power-sharing agreement to formally end South Sudan's brutal six-year civil war. The accord determined that Machar and other o...
How China’s Demand for Soybeans is Fueling the Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest Mark Leon Goldberg March 6, 2020China is by far the world's largest importer of soy, which is uses mostly as feed for pigs. Brazil is the second largest soybean producer in the world, after the United States, and the vast majority of Brazilia...
