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In Pakistan, the United States must ensure that policies, actions and resources focus on population-centric security and a community-based approach to policing.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
The deaths of unauthorized migrants have been a predictable and inhumane outcome of border security policies on the U.S.-Mexico border over the last fifteen years.
World Vision | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
I've met amazing people, who in the midst of disaster themselves, give the little they have. In Pakistan we met a man who took 30 displaced strangers into his house and looked after them until his own finances ran out.
Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.
Nimmi Gowrinathan | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The abuses of the past few months have left deep wounds that empty promises alone cannot heal; awareness does not always translate into action.
Hammad Hammad | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
How do I reconcile the many opportunities and experiences I am able to enjoy with the reality most Palestinians live with?
Times Online | Jeremy Page | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
Sri Lanka has refused to allow Sweden's Foreign Minister to enter the country on a joint mission with his British and French counterparts to press for...
ZP Heller | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
How can the Pakistani government root out militants in the country's lawless tribal areas when our military's actions are contributing to more extremism and anti-American sentiment?
AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
NETANYA, Israel — In some ways, Brig. Gen. Eli Shermeister's job is one of the toughest in the Israeli army. Shermeister serves as the Israeli ...
NYCity News Service | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.
The Guardian | Randeep Ramesh | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
More than 150,000 people are being shelled daily and are running short of water and medicine in a Sri Lankan-government declared "No Fire Zone", accor...
Mia Farrow | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
al-Bashir expelled 13 key humanitarian agencies from Sudan. Armed men have forcibly shut down aid compounds, seizing computers, cameras, personal phones and vehicles.
Louis Belanger | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
What is the international community waiting for, to see even more dismembered people, and families erased before they act? What is happening is against humanity. Are we not human?
Caroline Gluck | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
2008 was an especially grim year in Zimbabwe -- and prospects for the coming year seem little better. The fact that Zimbabweans were celebrating the new year at all might seem surprising.
Frankie Martin | Posted 02.05.2009 | World
An international stabilization force may well be what is needed in Somalia, but the tough groundwork will have to be laid first. And for this, the Somali people must be on board.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 01.30.2009 | Style
A good top 10 list is relevant, a little nostalgic and interesting. But a bad top 10 list? Now that's just good fun.
James Boyce | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
Right now, in Zimbabwe, a political and humanitarian tragedy, half the country is facing starvation. Not hunger, or shortage, but pure starvation.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home
Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has addressed this great humanitarian breakdown in Congo, except in the context of political squabbling.
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Lisa Schirch | Posted 11.12.2009 | World