Articles

By Beth Tritter, Jeffrey Markuns  Last month, alongside the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission launched a groundbreaking report on the future of global health and the HIV response. While acknowledging that... read more →

According to a new global surveillance system, 105 attacks on health-care facilities, personnel or resources were reported in the first three months of 2018. With many countries just beginning to... read more →

By Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.   A few milestones in March 2018 Seven years of war on children in Syria Three years... read more →

By Fouad Bergigui Biodiversity is much more than a list of species of microbes, fauna and flora, it is the colourful image we have of our landscapes, the inspiration for... read more →

By Kishan Khoday and John Knox   Among the various drivers of risk in the world today, two stand out: climate change and rapidly rising levels of inequality. While each... read more →

By Kishan Khoday and Oscar Ekdahl   More frequent and severe droughts, millions at risk of famine, the spread of conflict and mass displacement - these are the challenges of... read more →

By Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca*   In our age of conspicuous consumption and excess, it frightens us to know that one out of nine people ­– or 815 million children,... read more →

By Sara Jerving* Thirty-one-year-old Omar Muhudin Abdulle is trying to lure tourists to his hometown, Mogadishu. His company, Visit Mogadishu, provides tours to the city’s beaches, markets, and historical landmarks, including the... read more →

By Owen Shumba, Team Leader, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery   I recently visited a number of countries on a monitoring mission for the joint IOM-UNDP Global Project on Mainstreaming Migration in National... read more →

By Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, Global Environmental Finance Unit, UNDP 132 We live in a world of tenuous truths, shortened attention spans, competing priorities, and even-more complicated social... read more →