Global Views

Humanitarian response

Opinion: What Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis can teach us about Ethiopia

By Carolyn Nash

Ethiopia’s refugee crisis could become the intractable human rights disaster still facing Myanmar’s Rohingya — unless early interventions shift power to local responders, governments, and communities.

Sponsored by World Organization of the Scout Movement

Opinion: Why formal education is not enough

With formal education cracking under the pressure of the pandemic, how can nonformal education help? The World Organization of the Scout Movement's Hany Abdulmonem explains.

The future of US aid

Opinion: DFC's public engagement and transparency policies fail communities

Unless it corrects course, DFC’s current path runs the risk of jeopardizing U.S. leadership in transparency and accountability and is likely to fail communities — the intended beneficiaries of development.

Gender data

Opinion: To end violence against women, we must uncover inconvenient truths

As the world struggles to emerge from COVID-19 and the shadow pandemic of violence against women, UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office Director Björn Andersson calls on all governments to adopt an integrated four-step strategy.

Sponsored by International Justice Mission

Opinion: The parallel pandemic — sexual violence

COVID-19 has exacerbated the parallel pandemic of violence against women and children. Two human rights leaders discuss why "building back safer" — protecting women and children from violence — must be an essential component of the public health response.

Turning the tide

Opinion: Why infrastructure is key to the battle for survival in small island nations

With limited resources and mounting needs, how can investment in infrastructure systems better yield long-term development gains for all?

Inclusive development

Opinion: Why the Black Lives Matter movement should have us rethinking humanitarian aid

It is time to move from seeing humanitarian aid and resettlement as an act of generosity from rich countries to the mutually beneficial investment that it is, writes Wale Osofisan from IRC.

Sponsored by Catholic Relief Services

Opinion: Our time to act on the Sahel is now

A new analysis conducted by Catholic Relief Services offers an insiders’ look into the conflict at the heart of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crisis and recommendations on how to fix it.

COVID-19

Opinion: Why exciting results from vaccine research are just the beginning of efforts to end COVID-19

Decades of research and advocacy that led to achievements in HIV provide important lessons for the global responses to COVID-19.

COVID-19

Opinion: How AI can push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

This op-ed explores three ways pharmaceutical companies’ adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in supply chain activities can benefit the access-to-medicine issue.