Blog: Emerging Issues

Amid perpetual headlines about conflict, division, and other major global challenges, uplifting stories of progress often get lost in the …

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, just released new data on the amount of people forcibly displaced worldwide: a record 68.5 …

Editor’s note: this post was updated June 6, 2019. A recent study found that people may be consuming anywhere from 39,000 …

The recent launch in Nairobi of the Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) coincided with Kenya’s rainy season. Heavy rains caused …

  There was a new vibe in Geneva last week – and it wasn’t just the musicians serenading the delegates …

  By Nicole Savage. Nicole is currently on detail to WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Every May, delegates from nearly …

Displacement is currently at the world’s highest recorded levels, with more than 65 million people forced from their homes by …

Last week, British health authorities announced diagnosing a man with the first-ever case of gonorrhea untreatable by two front-line antibiotics …

Despite progress on many global development issues in recent decades, two destructive trends are on the rise – severe hunger …

One of the world’s leading killers is finally get some much-needed attention – but when it comes to reducing tuberculosis …