As world leaders and the development sector move to end extreme poverty by 2030, while dealing with unprecedented migration, global disease pandemics and climate change, everyone is wondering: What will development look like in the face of nationalist shifts in the Western World?
Aid officials say up to 90 percent of southern Haiti has been destroyed since Hurricane Matthew struck the impoverished nation…
Extreme poverty has declined worldwide while wealth inequality in many countries has increased, the World Bank reports, contending that these…
President Barack Obama’s summit on refugees and migrants during the U.N. General Assembly was championed as a ‘bold’ show of…
Foreign aid is more important than ever, according to Oxfam. Simply growing the global economy will not end extreme poverty…
Critics of Saudi Arabia’s military involvement in Yemen are trying to use the second conference of the Arms Trade Treaty to urge all countries to cease selling arms to the Saudi government, especially the U.K. and U.S.
World leaders will gather in New York in September for a United Nation special summit to deal with a grim global achievement – the record high number of refugees and forcibly displaced people around the planet. Critics are expressing serious doubts about whether politicians will come up with any meaningful strategies or proposals.
Nearly 2,000 children were killed or hurt last year in a Saudi-led coalition bombing campaign in Yemen, and a group…
The U.K. played host to a global anti-corruption summit yesterday. The event seemed particularly well-timed, coming on the heels of…
The announcement that the U.S. will ship 500 metric tons of packaged, dry-roasted peanuts to Haiti later this year has been…