TIME: This Freshman Congresswoman Wants to Restore U.S. Funding to U.N. Reproductive-Health Agency “When Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan first came to Washington, D.C. nine months ago, the Air Force veteran knew she wanted to carve out a policy niche in promoting women’s rights both domestically and internationally. On Thursday, she…

The Hill: On World Food Day, united in the fight against hunger at home and abroad Reps. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) “…As members of Congress on this World Food Day, we hope that the universality of food — and the knowledge that too many around us…

USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green Announces New Feed the Future Partnerships and an Open Call for Co-Creation “[Wednesday] in keynote remarks in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green announced three new Feed the Future partnerships with John Deere, Mastercard, and Cornell University to reduce…

Associated Press: Aid groups scramble to reach Syrians as battle lines shift “Humanitarian groups in northeastern Syria are scrambling to provide aid to hundreds of thousands of people as rapidly shifting battle lines make it increasingly difficult to reach them. Nearly all foreign aid workers have been evacuated because of…

Devex: Amid Syria crisis, David Miliband stresses impact of global leadership ‘vacuum’ “Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, International Rescue Committee President David Miliband, and other global development leaders [at an event hosted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York] sounded an alarm on Tuesday on how American foreign…

Foreign Policy: The Presidential Candidates Are Ignoring the World’s Biggest Looming Threat Matthew M. Kavanagh, visiting professor of law at Georgetown University and director of the Global Health Policy and Governance Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law “Whoever sits in the Oval Office come January…

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Climate Change and Food Security: A Test of U.S. Leadership in a Fragile World The summary of this brief, written by Chase Sova, senior associate (non-resident) with the CSIS Global Food Security Project; Kimberly Flowers, director of the Humanitarian Agenda and Global Food Security…

Borgen Magazine: USAID’s Nutrition Strategy “…Recently, USAID’s nutrition strategy has made important breakthroughs in the area of malnutrition, a problem that has otherwise eluded solutions. … USAID has made strides to reduce malnutrition by implementing programs with proven track records of success and by taking on new, potentially game-changing projects.…

New York Times: You’re Swabbing a Dead Gorilla for Ebola. Then It Gets Worse. “…Scientists [who] were trying to predict human Ebola outbreaks by detecting them first in apes and other forest animals … recently published a study in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B detailing 12…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Uganda denies plans to impose death penalty for gay sex amid global concern “Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation to reintroduce a bill…