'Tis the season for the annual lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake. UNICEF Ambassador and actress Lucy Liu will light the UNICEF snowflake on Thursday, N...
Caryl M. Stern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
If you are walking near Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and happen upon a crystal snowflake hovering overhead, please take a moment to consider why it is there.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
"Polio is only a plane ride away." So began my sobering interview with Carol Pandak, Manager of PolioPlus for Rotary International about polio, a cr...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Impact
The southeastern United States was spared the catastrophic damage many expect from fall hurricanes, but Hurricane Ida did its share of damage, floodin...
AP | ARIEL DAVID and MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
ROME — Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published ...
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Obama has compiled an extraordinary list of accomplishments already at the UN. Let's begin with his decision to appoint a new ambassador, Susan Rice, who actually believes in the UN.
Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact
I grew up under the impression that I was the best trick-or-treater in the whole wide world, because my grandmother invented it!...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact
Can you imagine a world in which one mother goes missing every minute of every day? According to UNICEF, we're living in it. More than 500,000 women...
Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
It can cost as little as 40 cents a day to provide ARV treatment to an individual in Africa and just $26 to provide the medicine to help prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her child.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact
After the worst flooding in decades, India faces a long road to recovery. Hundreds died and more than a million were displaced because of the floods, ...
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact
When you're a kid, Halloween is all about receiving: scares, costumes, and of course, candy. If you want Halloween for you and your kids to include so...
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.
Joe Berlinger | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
For the past month, I've been traveling around the country presenting my new film Crude to theatrical audiences. The first question is invariably, "What can we do to help these people?" Here's how I answer.
Kathleen Cravero | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
For all the humanitarian workers killed in the past ten years, not one investigation has reached a clear conclusion after which someone was punished. Nor has any government been held accountable.
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
Earlier this week I returned from a trip to the country, seeing first-hand some of the extensive damage and visiting with victims and relief workers.
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
The immense courage and strength of victimized Congolese women in speaking out will help bring more awareness to these crimes and change to a region of the world that suffers from the most brutal atrocities of war.
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I met a 12-year-old girl who told me her story of being attacked and raped. Last month when I returned to the DRC I asked to meet Hope again.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
The number of maternal deaths has remained virtually unchanged for the past two decades. This is unconscionable, and it's why the Group of Eight leaders recently agreed that the world must do more.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
The sixth Sa'ada war between central government forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen's north is well underway and expected to drag on, according to the country's ruling party.
Ann M. Veneman | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
It is often said that a picture can speak a thousand words. But what I saw there were no words to describe.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
Every minute of every day, a woman somewhere in the world dies as a result of pregnancy or childbirth--amounting to more than half a million fatalities each year.
Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
The One World Against Malaria Campaign aims to unlock the enormous potential of faith institutions in Africa by providing support and resources.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Jane and I love our adopted children more than anything else in the world. We would both rather have them raised by Madonna than grow up where we found them.
foxnews.com | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
Before Madonna "adopts" another child from Malawi, maybe someone should ask her where the money went from her big star studded 2008 fundraiser for tha...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact