The Conversation: Worsening Ebola crisis leaves U.N. Security Council with few options Mark Eccleston-Turner, lecturer at Keele University’s Law School “…The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) … acknowledged the situation in the DRC by issuing a resolution (resolution 2439) that calls for an end to the violence so that humanitarian…

Devex: Call for road deaths to be recognized as child health emergency (Abrahams, 12/14). Devex: Aid community silenced in Ethiopia (Root, 12/14). Devex: The impact of climate inaction on food security (Cornish, 12/13). The Guardian: ‘A child is killed daily’: saving lives in Brazil’s deadliest city for adolescents (Griffin, 12/14).…

The Guardian: Yemen: ceasefire agreed for port city of Hodeidah “Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to an immediate ceasefire in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, the U.N. secretary general has said, in a potential breakthrough at the end of a week of peace talks in Sweden. … If implemented…

New York Times: This Is What Our Yemen Policy Looks Like Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist “…Members of the United States Congress are considering measures that would end our country’s support for the [Saudi Arabian war in Yemen]. … United States policies are contributing to the deaths of children…

Reuters: Vaccines group plots path through conflict, instability, epidemics “More children worldwide are now immunized against killer diseases but the task has become harder due to conflicts, epidemics, urbanization, and migration, the head of a global vaccine group said. Seth Berkley, chief executive of [Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance], said his…

BBC: Yemen war: Billions in aid, but where’s it going? (Goodman, 12/12). The Guardian: ‘Yemenis are left so poor they kill themselves before the hunger does’ (12/11). Global Health NOW: Demystifying a ‘Curse’ (McNeish, 12/11). The Guardian: ‘What happened to me will not happen to my daughters’: sexual violence in…

IRIN: A new normal in humanitarian aid: treating middle-class diseases “Treating undernourished children, boosting nutrition for pregnant women, and even providing a statistical basis for the term ‘famine’ have all become routine parts of humanitarian health programs. But the routine is changing. As conflicts and crises overtake middle-income countries like…

PRI: U.N. compact recognizes climate change as driver of migration for first time “…A World Bank report released this spring estimated climate change could drive more than 140 million people to migrate internally within Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia alone by midcentury. The U.N. estimates a similar number…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Niger adopts law to protect displaced people in first for Africa “Niger has adopted Africa’s first national law for the protection and assistance of people fleeing violence, floods, and droughts, the government and United Nations said on Thursday. … The new law was approved unanimously by the…

Associated Press: Romania hospital says 39 babies now diagnosed with superbug (12/10). Devex: New WHO initiative targets emergency ‘blind spot’ (Ravelo, 12/11). The Guardian: Australia ranks well in global health, despite cancer and obesity alarm bells (Henriques-Gomes, 12/10). Intellectual Property Watch: Experts Call For Global Accountability Mechanism For Access To…