Addressing Garment Factory Workers’ Needs for Family Planning Information and Services in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Egypt
Globally, the garment industry employs nearly 94 million workers and more than 70 percent of them are women. Predominately, garment factory workers who are [...]
Fulfilling the Radical Power of Education
The radical power and potential of education must be both leveraged and revitalized in the face not only of a global learning crisis but [...]
Adaptation in Crisis: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Emergency Settings
Adolescent girls occupy central roles in families’ coping and survival strategies in times of crisis. Despite and because of this, adolescent girls suffer disproportionate [...]
Breaking Down Barriers to Aid: A 16 Days of Activism Q&A with Chi-Chi Undie
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, is an international campaign hosted by the United Nations to call communities, organizations, and governments to do [...]
Reflections from a Data-to-Action Workshop based on the First-Ever Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey
It’s not new that humanitarian crises are associated with heightened risk of gender-based violence (GBV) as well as disruption in sexual and reproductive health [...]
World AIDS Day at our Center for Biomedical Research
The Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research began research on the sexual transmission of HIV in 1986. For over 35 years, the Center has [...]
How Climate Change Threatens Mental Health & Well-Being – A Case Study from Mexico
Natural disasters associated with climate change and the climate crisis pose a direct threat to the mental health and well-being of young people. Today [...]
Effective Climate Adaptation
The climate crisis is accelerating, posing existential threats to people and places around the world. Any successful response must combine mitigation, or reducing carbon [...]