On a given work day, Misra Yusuf might vaccinate a child against polio, inject a woman with a long-acting contraceptive, screen a man for tuberculosis, hang a bed net to protect a family from malaria and help dig a pit latrine. Over the past few years, she has administered some 10,000 coronavirus vaccines in her […]
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Twenty years ago, the Republican Party started what may have been the most lifesaving government initiative in modern history. It turned the tide of AIDS around the world and has saved 25 million lives so far — equivalent to the entire population of Australia. So it’s a reflection of the madness that has infected the […]
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The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, convened a special summit on Wednesday in New York City designed to highlight the efforts of the most ambitious global leaders on climate policy — and to implicitly shame those who are dragging their feet. Mr. Guterres, who has made climate action a centerpiece of his agenda and […]
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President Biden will attempt on Tuesday to focus global attention on the need to protect and nurture democracies, calling for the world to continue backing Ukraine and urging advanced nations to do more to bolster economies in the developing world. In his third speech as president to the United Nations, Mr. Biden is expected to […]
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The United Nations General Assembly convenes on Tuesday in the shadow of the second year of war in Ukraine, amid a series of climate related catastrophes and at a time of increasing divisions in the world that will hamper efforts to address the litany of problems contributing to the strains. Underscoring the tensions, only President […]
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World leaders will gather this coming week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. In that week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes. As leaders discuss their goal to end hunger, over steak, children will be starving — […]
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For more than a decade, China has courted developing countries frustrated with the West. Beijing’s rise from poverty was a source of inspiration. And as it challenged the postwar order, especially with its global focus on development through trade, loans and infrastructure projects, it sent billions of much-needed dollars to poor nations. But now, China […]
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Eight years after world leaders approved a landmark agreement in Paris to fight climate change, countries have made only limited progress in staving off the most dangerous effects of global warming, according to the first official report card on the global climate treaty. Many of the worst-case climate change scenarios that were much feared in […]
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Hopes were running high in Nairobi, Kenya, this week as African leaders gathered for an inaugural climate summit designed to urgently kick-start the continent’s transition to clean energy. The summit, which included leaders from Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, the U.S. and the E.U., tried to create a “new narrative” around Africa, according to James Irungu […]
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