By Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Original piece was published in the Huffington Post Throughout the ages, children have been used...
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It’s Time We Try a New Recipe for Disaster Risk Reduction
Francoise Jacob, Stefan Kohler Are we creating the perfect conditions for a dramatic disaster to happen? Torrential rainfall, extreme flooding and massive landslides have claimed more than 200 lives...
Vanuatu Develops Drought-Resistant Crops In Response To Climate Change
PORT VILA: Sweet potato is a stable food for over 70 percent of the Vanuatu population, most from rural areas - where they depend on traditional agriculture to provide for their dietary needs and...
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Relief and Politics: Seeking Aid Access in Sudan's South Kordofan War Zone
Under a barrage of shelling, Haider Anur and his wife fled their home last year with five children in tow. The family did not have time to take anything with them. They were among tens of thousands...
No easy choices, but one imperative: impartial assistance to all in need
By Kevin M. Kennedy* The United Nations and its partners stand ready to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance following the agreement reached by the US and Russia reinstating the cessation...
The Climate Change Solution to Disasters
By Robert Glasser and Achim Steiner This year is already on track to be the hottest on record, beating out 2015 for this unfortunate distinction. Every year, if it’s not the mercury rising it’s the...
Malnutrition In Vanuatu Is A Slow Acting Disaster Taking Children's Lives
It's the single biggest contributor to child mortality in the Pacific Emily Verdouw Just over a year ago Cyclone Pam decimated the Pacific Island of Vanuatu. As the country continues to rebuild, it...
Seeding Peace in Syria
Irina Bokova Director General, UNESCO The Syria conflict will soon enter its sixth year. Six long years of violence and destruction have left 250,000 dead, created the world's worst humanitarian...
Women Build Pathways to Peace in South Sudan
We thought it was going to be fighting, fighting until all of us died," recalls Mary, a widow and mother of five who lost her husband and other family members during the Second Sudanese Civil War...
In Afghanistan, Investing in Women Inspires Change
Jennifer L. Windsor The vast majority of the news coming out of Afghanistan is about increased insecurity, war, poverty and youth leaving the country to seek refuge elsewhere, but this is not the...
This Is What Being 'Tough on Terror' Looks Like In East Jerusalem
At the southern edge of Jabal Mukaber, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, the hills form a wide, natural amphitheatre. Here olive groves adorn the gentle slopes, horses whinny,...
As Europe Considers Asylum Policy, World's Poorest Teach Us Lessons of Humanity
Toby Lanzer Two years into Boko Haram's brutal cycle of violence, what could well become Africa's largest displacement crisis is now unravelling across the Lake Chad Basin, straddling Cameroon, Chad,...
The Perilous Change in Darfur's Demography
The debate about whether or not Darfur (Sudan) was the site of genocide long ago flamed out, largely because the issue became excessively politicized and the world--in general--no longer cared about...
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Clean Cookstoves Drive Gender Equality
The writers are Michele Sullivan, Director of Corporate Social Innovation at Caterpillar and President of the Caterpillar Foundation, and Radha Muthiah, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance...
Think we can't end global malnutrition by 2030? Think again
There is a public health crisis that is threatening the health and lives of men, women and children across our planet at an alarming rate, and the richest nations are affected as well as the poorest...
How Many Lives Can We Save In 500 Days?
The clock is ticking loudly for all of us focused on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose established end-date is December 31, 2015. We have made absolutely phenomenal progress...
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Prioritizing Chaos: The Challenges Humanitarians Face When Responding to Crises
When the world's humanitarian leaders gathered at the World Health Organization's headquarters in December 2010 the mood was somber. The previous year had witnessed large-scale natural disasters in...
Accountability in South Sudan -- the African Union Steps Up
By Adama Dieng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Images of Charles Taylor being arrested and indicted in 2006 for his crimes in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war were...