Poverty | -Help Starts Young-

Here’s another post for our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series! This week you can learn about Child Poverty throughout the world and the efforts being made to help the fight against child poverty and child labor so that future generations can develop. You can also check out our past blog posts [...]

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Famine|-it’s a small world, after all.-

I am reminded daily just how small our world can be. Most recently, an earthquake on the other side of the globe could have contaminated the fish I eat for dinner or the California coastal water I swim in. Japanese trading delays affected the lines of iPad impatience outside our local Apple stores—providing a front [...]

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The Rural Challenge (via The Official Blog of the UNA-GB)

Another week has just begun and today we have our weekly blog post from our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series. This week learn about rural development in today’s world, including the benefits and challenges it introduces to areas around the world in rural areas with the need for development for a brighter [...]

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July 26th UN Briefing on the Emergency in the Horn of Africa.

“Famine is not a word we use lightly” said Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, at the Rome meeting called to discuss the emergency in Eastern Africa which is in the grip of the worst drought in 6 decades. The rains did not come; the crops failed; the next rains – if [...]

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UN: Situation in Somalia deteriorating daily.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Jul 02 2010 13:16 The people of Somalia are facing an increasing lack of security and a humanitarian situation that is worsening daily, a United Nations official said on Friday. "The situation is worsening and every-day violence and human rights abuses in Somalia continue to displace thousands of civilians," Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for [...]

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World entering era of permanent food crisis, with prices to double over next 20 years.

Thursday, June 09, 2011 by: Neev M. Arnell (NaturalNews) The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, Oxfam warns. The world is entering an era of permanent food crisis, which is likely to be accompanied by political unrest, and the situation will lead to an unprecedented reversal in [...]

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Global Perspectives on Autism -A Growing Public Health Crisis-

Yesterday, May 31, USICD staff attended the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights' hearing entitled Global Perspectives on Autism: A Growing Public Health Crisis.  The hearing, led by Congressman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), focused on new and emerging information about autism in the global community and the challenges that nations [...]

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