FT Health: The struggle for women’s rights The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter discusses results from UNFPA’s latest annual report, which provides an overview of global progress on women’s access to contraception and sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as features an interview…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Better Water Security Translates into Better Food Security Kyla Peterson, environmental change and security intern at the Wilson Center, discusses remarks from panelists at a recent event addressing the connections between food and water security, which was sponsored by…

Al Jazeera: Nigeria’s medical brain drain: Health care woes as doctors flee (Abang, 4/8). Al Jazeera: Five years after West Africa’s Ebola pandemic: Where are we now? (Chinwada, 4/6). The Guardian: Paul Kagame orders release of women and girls jailed over abortion in Rwanda (Okiror, 4/5). Inter Press Service: Safeguarding…

Agence France-Presse: 1.1 million children affected by Venezuela crisis: UNICEF “The number of children who are affected by the Venezuelan crisis and who will need humanitarian aid this year is expected to more than double to reach 1.1 million, up from nearly 500,000, the U.N. children’s agency said Thursday. The…

Bloomberg: U.S. Shifts Venezuela Strategy at U.N. to Focus on Toll of Crisis “The U.S. is seeking to highlight the growing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela at the United Nations after its earlier bids to call for new elections faced stiff opposition from veto-wielding rivals Russia and China. The U.S. called…

NPR: Shocking New Statistics About Water And Hygiene In Hospitals Around The World “…[I]n 17 countries at least one in five health care facilities has no clean water service on site. That’s just one of many disturbing findings in a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. That…

Deutsche Welle: U.N.: One quarter of the world’s health centers lack clean water “Some 2 billion people around the world use health facilities that lack basic water services, a United Nations report has found. Data showed that around 1 in 4 health facilities lacked basic water services. In the poorest…

World Economic Forum: Water scarcity is a growing problem across the Middle East. Is this how we solve it? Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi, chief sustainability officer at Majid Al Futtaim Holding, discusses water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, writing, “Unless we devise multiple innovative, sustainable, and scalable…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: A Call to Action: Supporting Women Through Water, World Water Day 2019 Caitlin Hawes of the Bureau of Ocean and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State highlights discussion from a recent event recognizing International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month, and…

USAID: United States Announces Additional Humanitarian Assistance for Afghans Affected by Conflict, Drought, and Other Natural Disasters “The United States announced more than $61 million in additional humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of vulnerable communities, displaced persons, and returning refugees across Afghanistan, as well as Afghan refugees in the…