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Financial instability, social inequality and environmental degradation – policy-makers in all countries face these global challenges. Which countries are doing best to…

The rate of underemployment has remained persistently high in a number of developed countries. We need a new policy response to tackle this social problem. In the summer after I…

Mara Pillinger explores the WHO’s emerging response to Zika.  Last Thursday, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, announced that she…

After reaching a historic climate deal in Paris in December, the huge task of implementing and financing the shift to a low carbon economy begins in earnest. The December 2015 UN…

Zika—the new kid on the pandemic block—is emerging in the wake of Ebola, at a time when critical lessons learned from the world’s response to Ebola are still…

This opinion piece is part of the “The Global Governance Futures” programme, which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address…

Aramide Odutayo examines the strengths and limitations of the UN Women’s flagship report “Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights”. The…

Jennifer Bagelman examines how the language landscape shapes migration debates.“Swarms of people.” This is how Prime Minister David Cameron describes children, women,…

Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…

Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective, edited by Ottavio Quirico and Mouloud Boumghar. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2016. 410 pp,…