Clik here to view.
Energy Investing: The Indigenous Rights Bubble
— By Carol Smith In case you haven’t been able to keep up with all the details and implications of ever-spiralling global energy use, the financial risks are increasingly varied. Due to the no longer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Preventing a Monsoon Health Crisis in Bangladesh
— By Praem Mehta and Katie Kuschminder The human rights violations and targeted violence against Rohingya communities in Rakhine State, Myanmar have forced over 687,000 people to flee to Bangladesh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Countries at Odds Over Movement of Refugees and Migrants
— By Bavo Stevens In recent years, the world has seen a rise in the number of people displaced due to violence, conflict, environmental degradation, and economic hardship. These demographic shifts have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
States Continue Efforts To Stem Refugee and Migrant Flows
— By Bavo Stevens In recent years, the world has seen a rise in the number of people displaced due to violence, conflict, environmental degradation, and economic hardship. These demographic shifts have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Overlooked: Migrant Women Working in Mexico
— By Anjali Fleury The international community has shown increased interest in the migrant flows from the Northern Triangle countries — El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala — to the United States...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Somali Refugees: Between Shelter and Discrimination
— By Antonia Sohns In mid-January 2016, al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate, attacked an African Union base in the southern Somali town of el-Ade. The militants killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers, fueling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protecting Female Refugees against Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Camps
— By Marija Obradovic Globally today, we are witnessing an “inexorable intensification of violence” in the world’s armed conflicts. The result is that there are currently 59.5 million refugees...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clean Water for All: A Case Study of Malaysia’s Orang Asli
— By Emma Rhule & Ashley Thoo It is impossible to overstate the importance of water in our daily lives. It is a vital element of nearly all aspects of human existence from sustenance, sanitation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the UN Ready for a Peacekeeping Mission in Syria?
— By Diego Salama and Ortrun Merkle Seven years into the war, Syria has seen over 400,000 casualties and more than 5 million refugees. Those still in the country suffer from chemical attacks and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
— By David M. Malone When the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, Goal 16 was seen as truly transformative, formally linking, for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sons of Iraq: Mosul Will Only Recover if We Heed the Lessons of the US Invasion
— By Pui Hang Wong After months of fighting, Iraqi Security Forces have finally regained control of the eastern half of Mosul, the last urban stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq. They are now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ultimate Deal: US Presidents and the Allure of Peace in the Middle East
— By Lee Schrader This article is featured as part of the United Nations University Sustainable Development Explorer. UNU’s work is uniquely comprehensive, spanning the full breadth of the Sustainable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women, Peace & Security: 15 Years Since UNSCR 1325
— By Ortrun Merkle and Tamara Kool Today marks the 15th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), adopted 31 October 2000. For the first time it recognised...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top Incomes: More Women, Still Very Male-Dominated
— What does income inequality by gender look like at the very top of the income distribution? Is there a ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women from reaching the top? How has this changed over time? Looking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Many Children Are Not In School?
— January 24th 2019 marks the UN’s International Day of Education. It’s a day to recognize both the progress we’ve made in closing the gap on global education, and the work that needs to be done to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Emits More Than Their Share of CO₂ Admissions?
— In a recent article I explored how different income groups and world regions compared in terms of their share of the global population and versus carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. From this, two key...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Important Finding: Income Inequality is Neither Ubiquitous nor Inevitable.
— Rising levels of inequality has become a key political issue in recent years; “the defining issue of our time,” as Barack Obama described it back in 2013. It was at the heart of the Occupy movement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oceans, Land, and Deep Subsurface: How Is Life Distributed Across Environments?
— We looked at how global biomass is distributed between taxonomic kingdoms here. How is it distributed between environments? The visualization below provides a snapshot of how life spans across the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Emits More Than Their Share of CO₂ Emissions?
— Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics. This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on CO₂ and other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twice as Long: Life Expectancy Around the World
— The three maps below show the global history of life expectancy over the last two centuries. Demographic research suggests that at the beginning of the 19th century no country in the world had a life...
View Article
