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Climate change and migration exacerbate women’s health poverty. Special needs related to menstruation, pregnancy, and caregiving mean that women often require more water to maintain sanitation.

Alpha Scholars is a rigorous social science research program that teaches college-level research, writing and presentation skills to high school students in support of the UN Sustainable Development ...

Opening a bank account, obtaining a driver’s license, or even getting married—while many of us may take these activities for granted, they are impossible for people without a formal nationality, or so ...

Every two weeks, an Indigenous language dies. Some of the languages that have already disappeared were Inuit languages, spoken in the far reaches of the Arctic. Others had evolved in the leafy ...

If one were to classify the employment process in the UAE as modern slavery, recruitment fees would serve as the first step towards enslavement. Even before arriving in the UAE, migrant workers find ...

Nepal is very diverse along religious lines. In the most recent census of 2011, 81 percent of the population identified themselves as Hindus, while 9 percent identified Buddhism as their primary ...

As the world grappled with the onset of the novel coronavirus earlier this year, policymakers in countries across the world had to quickly make a decision. Neither option was particularly appealing: a ...

There is change in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: this year, farmers in the region reaped little to no harvest, a sharp contrast to the image of thirty years ago. Some residents, such as Aibakuro Warder, a 51 ...

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Both nations’ reluctance boils down to their dispute over a string of islands stretching from Hokkaido, Japan’s ...

The infamous event that is the pig heart transplant of January 2022 was viewed as both an inhumane abomination and a scientific revelation. Integrating gene modification technology, the University of ...

“All of Europe says that there are rights for every human being and we did not see that.” Albagir, a male refugee from Sudan, and one of his co-travelers struggle to cross into Poland. Meanwhile, the ...