Many know Shakira for her Latin-inspired pop songs and hip gyrations. But the singer was subdued and earnest in a recent op-ed in the Economist, where...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
Ten years ago, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden reached the point where she could no longer witness the appalling conditions of children around the ...
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact
On this World Food Day more than one billion people are suffering from malnutrition and hunger, an increase of 100 million in just over a year.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
You wouldn't expect a plenary session at the CGI called "Moving From Crisis to Opportunity - Financing an Equitable Future," featuring the CEO of JP Morgan, to be the natural venue for launching a major maternal health initiative.
Catholic Relief Services | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
President Obama should fulfill the promise of candidate Obama by engaging with the people of Africa and doubling foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
World Population Day serves as an urgent reminder that, even amidst a global recession and tight budgets, governments must boost investments in global health -- especially the health of mothers.
William Easterly | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
The point of the Millennium Development Goals campaign was that it precisely defined success and failure using specific goals. So on its own terms, it is a failure.
Sia Nyama Koroma | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
Maternal mortality has sadly become the rule not the exception. But this can change. We have the knowledge and the skills to deliver -- we just need the political will and resources to support us.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
It is critical during the global recession that we not only reaffirm but accelerate our commitment extreme poverty around the world. The crisis threatens poorer countries more than it does the developed world.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
Helping children in India, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Yemin and Benin would significantly contribute to achieving universal pimary education for boys and girls.
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid | Posted 04.11.2009 | World
As the head of UNFPA for the past eight years, I have traveled the world and can tell you that the issues of women's rights and reproductive health have in the past been egregiously neglected by the international community.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
At a time when the stock market is providing dizzyingly negative returns, it may be time to look at the conservative but positive returns that can be had by investing in subsistence-level farmers.
Virginia Simmons | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
President Obama clear in his speech the importance of fighting poverty and preventable disease worldwide.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
I'd like to go back to Rwanda or Kenya or Ethiopia on Jan. 20. I could point to the TV and say: "Look. Listen. This is what it means to be American."
Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.17.2009 | World
While it is beginning to look old and creaky, PEPFAR is a progressive and productive program that provides an excellent base of experience on which the Obama administration can build.
Inter Press Service | Posted 01.19.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Dec 19 (IPS) - In 1925, Mahatma Gandhi remarked that "Sanitation is more important than political independence." More than 80 years later, ac...
Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Since 2002, the Global Fund has been committed to helping countries fight this deadly disease, and currently funds two-thirds of all malaria programs internationally.
Jane Roberts | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home
John, when the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. The Bush Administration plays all kinds of games with women's access to reproductive health and family planning. You haven't shown me that you would be any better.
Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact