Better Know Kelly Craft, Donald Trump’s Pick as US Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg June 24, 2019Donald Trump's pick to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations is unlike any other previous nominee for the US-UN role. Kelly Knight Craft currently serves as the US Ambassador to Canada, a ...
How the World is Responding to the Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mark Leon Goldberg June 20, 2019According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organization, an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed over 1400 people. This makes it the second worst ebola outbreak in histo...
The Hong Kong Protests Mark Leon Goldberg June 16, 2019The protests in Hong Kong represent a key turning point for China, Hong Kong, and the world.Hong Kong is in the midst of the most significant protest movement since China assumed sovereignty in 1997. These...
The Sudan Crisis Has Reached A Key Infection Point Mark Leon Goldberg June 13, 2019Sudan is at a crossroads. In April, popular protests in Khartoum lead to the ouster of the country's longtime ruler, Omar al Bashir. He was toppled in a coup by military leaders. But the peaceful protests did ...
The Persecution of Christians in Iraq Mark Leon Goldberg June 10, 2019In 2003, before the US invasion of Iraq, there were an estimated 1.2 million Christians living there. Today, that number is less than 250,000 -- an eighty percent drop in less than two decades.If this trend...
What You Need to Know About Internally Displaced People Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg June 6, 2019Over 41 million people were internally displaced last year due to conflict and violence, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. This is a record high and excludes an additio...
How A Census Can Drive Sustainable Development in Africa Mark Leon Goldberg June 3, 2019In 2020 the West African Country of Ghana will conduct a census. This is a massive undertaking. Some 60,000 people will be deployed across the country in an effort to count every single person in Ghana on what ...
UN Correspondent Chat: Sherwin Bryce-Pease, South African Broadcast Corporation Mark Leon Goldberg May 30, 2019What is the latest from the United Nations?In this edition of the Global Dispatches Podcast series "UN Correspondent Chat," Sherwin Bryce-Pease of the South African Broadcast Corporation and I have a wide r...
Here is How Close the World’s Poorest Countries Are to Acheiving Universal Health Coverage Joanne Lu May 24, 2019The world is nowhere near achieving universal health coverage by 2030, a new index by Save the Children shows. The Universal Health Coverage and Accountability Index looks at 81 countries that account for 90 p...
