If necessity is the mother of invention, we should be looking forward to a breathtakingly innovative agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Such an agreement would not only outline how we should curb greenhouse gas emissions, but (...)
GAZA: Nearly four months since the end of hostilities in Gaza, it is increasingly apparent that massive needs are going unmet, and reconstruction is stalled. Donors have pledged money for humanitarian aid and for Gaza reconstruction, but on the (...)
Somalis who made it through this summer of fighting and hunger are living through one of the lowest points in their country's history. At this time of desperate need, courageous aid workers seeking to alleviate the suffering of Somalis are at great (...)
Today, the United Nations estimates that 77 million people - more than 1 percent of the world's population - are displaced within their own countries, having been forced to flee their homes by armed conflicts, violence, urbanization, development, (...)
Iwas recently in Gaza, one of the world's most densely packed places, and today a firmly sealed human pressure cooker. The deepening distress of the people I saw there illustrated only too clearly the growing disconnect between the aims and hopes of (...)
One of the world's largest and fastest-growing humanitarian crises is also among the least-known: Iraq. More than four million people, one out of every seven Iraqis, have fled their homes in what is the largest population displacement in the recent (...)
Three years ago this April, my predecessor first brought Darfur to the attention of the United Nations Security Council. And now this April, I too have gone before the Security Council to brief them on the ongoing tragedy of Darfur following my (...)