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 [...]
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 [...]
Finding Hope Away from Home: Supporting Displaced Populations in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Today is the 22nd annual World Refugee Day, which commemorates both the anniversary of the 1951 United Nations (UN) Refugee Convention and our international [...]
Demographic Trends and Population Health: Tackling Inequality in a World of Eight Billion People
In a new BMJ Global Health commentary, Thoai Ngo discusses a shift in the way we tackle interactions between the 3Cs (climate crisis, conflict, [...]
Selam Medirashachin (Safe Arrival)
Adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries are migrating from rural to urban areas in ever greater numbers. This increase in [...]
Guatemala’s Western Highlands: Addressing Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change
In New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center, Council researchers Jessie Pinchoff and Angel del Valle highlight the connection between [...]
Insights into Labor Migration in India and Bangladesh
Migration for employment—whether overseas or internally—is driven by similar factors: poverty, debt, and lack of job opportunities at home, as well as the prospect [...]
Selam Medireshachen (Safe Arrival): Reducing Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Migrant Girls in Ethiopia
Adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries are migrating from rural to urban areas in ever greater numbers. This increase in [...]