Editorial
A Generation Left Behind
One of the report’s most important findings is also its most counterintuitive to those who might assume that demand for education collapses in humanitarian emergencies.…
Aid Decline Compounds Suffering Amid Ongoing Military Attacks
Myanmar has been in conflict since the military seized power in February 2021. The OHCHR report notes that foreign actors continue to transfer arms, ammunition,…
The Collapse of Child Protection in Armed Conflict
Killing and maiming remained the most frequently verified violation category in 2025. Some 6,266 children were killed and a further 7,958 maimed, representing increases of…
A Perilous Reckoning for the World’s Fight Against AIDS
The toll falls disproportionately on the young. Every week 3,000 adolescent girls and young women in sub–Saharan Africa acquire HIV, a figure that has barely…
World Day Against Child Labour: The Day the World Plays While Its Children Work
By sector, agriculture is where the problem is most concentrated and, not coincidentally, where it is hardest to address. Sixty-one per cent of all child…
Slow Progress: Twenty Years of Disability Rights
Only 28 per cent of people with significant disabilities have access to social protection benefits globally, while on average households with a person with a…
A Sea of Sorrows: The Unending Death Toll in the Central Mediterranean
For years, civilian rescue organisations operated vessels in the Central Mediterranean to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of the Italian navy’s Mare Nostrum…
Money, Rights, and the Climate
The political process surrounding the new collective quantified goal on climate finance remains deeply complex, with disagreements over the base year, the definition of what…
