Health workers and facilities were under attack in conflicts in at least 23 countries in 2016, and the perpetrators are getting away with it, according to a new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition.
U.K. initiatives that aim to stem migration across the Mediterranean need more careful consideration, according to an independent watchdog group. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) analyzed existing and proposed programs that are funded by U.K. foreign aid money and identified the potential for success, as well as unintended consequences.
Humanitarian groups are issuing alerts after as many as 1,000 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe over…
A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed…
More and more people are leaving their countries to find opportunity and safety, by boat. Migrants and refugees are risking…
A group of Libyan physicians are in Seattle this week — despite the best efforts of the FBI to discourage them — to meet with Anne Stevens, a physician researcher at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and others to foster an initiative aimed at building a new health care system in that ravaged country
On CNN’s Global Public Square blog, Stewart Patrick writes that the U.S. military’s support of the popular revolution in Libya…
Flickr, Jayel Aheram Except for euphemistically calling warfare “intervention,” I think this article in The Atlantic about our current military…
Anti-Gaddafi protests in LibyaFlickr, Messay Shoakena The popular revolt in Libya began in Tunisia, gained force in Egypt, and is…
Most of us prefer to avoid using the military and killing people to solve problems. At least, that’s what we…