Carmen Elena is a Colombian woman whose life was upended by the violence that took the lives of her husband and her brother. Her plan to build a village that would offer a safe haven for mothers trying to keep their children from being recruited by armed groups collapsed when USAID shut down
The world is rearming and humanitarian aid is collapsing. Tamanna, Hamada and Carmen Elena have felt the shock of the global upheaval firsthand. Like them, millions of women in the Global South feel the sting of decisions made in offices thousands of kilometers away. Three comics and a common denominator: being a woman
Up to 40% of organizations report ‘major impacts’ on their work, according to surveys by the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and other groups, which warn of the risk of rising cases and severe liver disease
The first anniversary of the Republican’s second term is marked a broken country and an international panorama at the mercy of the unpredictable White House show
The Republican is dismantling government programs that working families in the United States depend on. Abroad, he is shoring up an administration aligned with his policies
The first snapshot of the state of health in the post-pandemic world reveals high levels of deaths among young people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico ‘driven by economic, social, and psychological factors’
‘The money is there,’ says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. ‘All that is needed is the political will’
Democratic lawmakers say that Trump reassigned 90% of the DHS office that investigates child exploitation and trafficking to immigration enforcement
The lives of millions of children hang in the balance if they lose access to this compound. The UN and NGOs are seeking solutions to produce it locally and distribute the US stockpile
Numerous NGOs are trying to prevent the Trump administration from incinerating a shipment of pills, intrauterine devices, and hormonal implants, stored on European soil, that would help 1.4 million women and girls
The temporary suspension of PEPFAR has disrupted preventive treatments, infant testing, and the work of community health teams serving vulnerable populations in the Global South, according to UNAIDS
Despite a projected drop in aid, Mathias Cormann remains optimistic, proposing ways to boost public and private financing at the UN summit in Seville
Trafficking of this endangered species may seem like a marginal issue to some. It isn’t. It’s a high-level criminal activity
In addition to the layoffs at the storm monitoring agency NOAA, several USAID programs aimed at disaster risk management have been suspended
Civilians living in displacement camps in one of the most food-insecure countries in the world have been hit hard by the US president’s decision to suspend USAID
More than 9,000 people are living in a former airport in Colombia. They have lost all support from all US-funded NGOs
In the absence of effective institutions and checks and balances, journalists in Nicaragua have become a crucial pillar of support for institutions, the opposition, and civil organizations devastated by the repression of Ortega and Murillo
