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UN Report Highlights Women’s Roles in Natural Resource Management During and...
It’s been 14 years since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 acknowledging women as important agents of change in recovery from conflict and peacebuilding generally. But between 1992 and...
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Lisa Friedman on a More Diverse Environmental Movement and the Critical Year...
“If you care about climate change and international response to climate change, the first two weeks of December in Paris, France, will be your Super Bowl,” says Lisa Friedman, deputy editor of...
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As Humanitarian Crises Multiply, Maternal Health and Safety of Women Becoming...
Accessing maternal health care is already a challenge in many countries, and when conflict erupts or a disaster strikes, it can get even worse, leaving millions of women on their own while at their...
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In Critical Year for Climate Change, Lack of Urgency is Worrying, Says Nick...
“After Ukraine, ISIS, terrorism…there are a lot of distractions in 2015,” says Nick Mabey, founder and chief executive of the environmental NGO E3G, in this week’s podcast. “Short term issues are...
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Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the UN Climate Talks But Were...
The original version of this article, by Fiona Harvey, appeared on Ensia as part one of a context series leading up to COP-21 in Paris beginning November 30. Climate change negotiations seem to crawl...
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Measuring Maternal Health in a Post-MDG World
As the international development community looks back on the Millennium Development Goals and ponders what remains to be done under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals, the maternal health...
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“A Once in a Generation Moment”: Manish Bapna on the Sustainable Development...
“The thing that is most gripping about the SDGs is their desire to be much more transformative in terms of what they mean for the planet,” says Manish Bapna, executive vice president and managing...
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Interview With Michael Brown, UN Senior Mediation Expert in Natural Resources...
Natural resources rarely feature during peacebuilding efforts, but there is growing evidence that’s a mistake. Unresolved natural resource management issues can make peace more fragile, while...
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Islands: Climate Victims or Champions of Resilience?
In contrast to the common narrative of small-island states being among the most vulnerable to climate change, their growing experience in climate-compatible development, disaster prevention, and...
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Small-Island States Continue Long Crusade for Recognition of Climate Damages
“Even though small-island nation states generally are responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, small islands are already expending scare resources on strategies to...
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Accounting for 1 in 3 Maternal Deaths, Health Disparities Persist in South Asia
The state of maternal health in South Asia is difficult to assess. Although rates of maternal mortality are declining between 2 and 2.5 percent a year overall, the region’s massive population – one...
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Cooperation Is Not Enough: Why We Need to Think Differently About Water
In 2003, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2005 to 2015 to be the decade of “water for life” as a way to encourage countries to reach their water-related targets under the Millennium...
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How Midwives Can Answer the World’s Maternal Health Woes
The world is about to hit a “turning point” in maternal and newborn health, said Laura Laski, chief of the sexual and reproductive health at UNFPA, at the Wilson Center on March 23. “In terms of...
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Adapting to Global Change: Climate Displacement, Mega-Disasters, and the Next...
The world is more connected than ever before, but also more complex. Big, transnational trends like climate change, urbanization, and migration are changing the calculus of geopolitics, while...
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“No Precedent in Human History”: Ruth Greenspan Bell on Why Climate Change...
The stakes are high for the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, so high in fact, some scholars feel it’s foolish to be putting all our eggs in one basket. The stakes are high for the UN...
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A Nuclear Deal Could Help Iran Harness a Youthful Labor Force
The original version of this article appeared as part of the Middle East Program’s “Viewpoints” series. Iran is poised to reap a vast “demographic dividend” if the appropriate national and...
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50 Years of Family Planning at USAID: Successes, Political Challenges, and...
Since President Lyndon B. Johnson created the USAID population program in 1965, it has evolved in tandem with the global discourse on population and demography. “The agency’s family planning program...
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Addis Financing Summit Leaves Questions – Will the SDGs Provide Answers?
The original version of this article, by Alex Evans, appeared on The Guardian. Start with the good news from this week’s finance for development conference in Addis Ababa: at least it got the...
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How Successful Were the Millennium Development Goals? A Final Report
Earlier this month, the United Nations released a final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the framework that has guided global development efforts for the last 15 years. The document...
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Running Faster to Stand Still: New UN Population Projections Point to...
In most parts of the world, population growth is stagnant, even declining slightly, part of a decades-long and nearly universal shift towards smaller, healthier families. But the places where growth...
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