Insight / Climate Justice / Humanitarian Emergencies
In the midst of headlines on the refugee and climate crises, you may have seen mentions of a growing famine in North East Africa. And while it’s a different crisis, the responsibility remains with the same global powers that were meeting in Paris for the climate talks and in Nairobi for…
Insight / Climate Justice
Today the climate negotiations in Paris were due to come to a close, but a final deal now looks set to be announced tomorrow. Government leaders and their delegations will head home with an agreement that will likely result in global temperature rises of more than 2 degrees. For those…
Insight / Climate Justice / Women's Rights
When you hear the word “apartheid”, you probably think of Nelson Mandela fighting against a repressive South African regime. In fact, the word literally means “the state of being apart” in the Afrikaans language. At this moment in America, and around the world, the gap between the most wealthy and…
Insight / Climate Justice
Shah Alam comes from the south of Bangladesh, where he fixed river boats for a living. He lived on the banks of a healthy vibrant river. But the waters kept rising and his home collapsed into the river due to erosion. His hope was that the opposite bank of the…
Insight / Emergency Response / Humanitarian Emergencies
When the first Nepal earthquake struck, I was at a meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The quake was so strong that we could feel the earth shaking, even though we were more than 400 miles away. We felt the aftershocks, too. Not only did the swaying buildings elicit a sense of…
