Barbados was among the countries in the Americas that, in 2010, committed to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis under PAHO’s Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections. In 2025, PAHO/WHO conducted a visit to the island to asse
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. It highlights key challenges, emerging good practices and recommendations for more secure, inclusive and sustainable land use. Access to land is central to food security, livelihoods and self-reliance for refugees and host communities in Uganda. Yet shrinking plot sizes, insecu...
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. In Marsabit County, Kenya, prolonged drought is eating away at the food security, health and livelihoods of pastoralist families. With funding from the Kenya Humanitarian Fund, Concern Worldwide is supporting drought-affected communities with nutrition, water, sanitation and hy...
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. The exceptional is no longer exceptional. We must prepare for everything. This summer, Europe fought raging wildfires together through our Union Civil Protection Mechanism. In Belgium, France, Spain, Serbia and beyond, planes crossed borders and European firefighters worked sid...
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. As Europe faces growing risks and increasingly complex natural hazards and human-induced disasters, 9 in 10 Europeans think it is important that the EU helps coordinate disaster response both within its territories and other countries, while 94% agree that Member States should ...
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. KEY HIGHLIGHTS Displacement continues to grow, with more than 281,000 people displaced. Most have fled fighting in Ta’iz and along the West Coast, and a new surge from Lahj in mid-October shows that the crisis is spreading rather than stabilizing. People in and around Ta’iz Cit...
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. Executive summary The topic of trauma-informed care (TiC) in asylum and reception systems was identified as one of the key priorities during the 2025 annual conference of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) Vulnerability Experts Network. In response, the EUAA vulnerabil...
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Countries: Ukraine, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic . Pour compenser la forte baisse de son budget, le HCR cherche à réunir au moins 50 millions de dollars pour l’aide hivernale 2026-2027, soit 3 millions de plus que l’an dernier, grâce à sa campagne annuelle auprès du...
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. The initiative also aims to improve emergency response readiness by ensuring essential supplies are strategically positioned and available for deployment during disasters and emergencies. “Disasters often strike without warning. Prepositioning Direct Relief’s emergency supplies...
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Countries: Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia . 30 October 2026 GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis facing more than 65,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in Yemen, as escalating insecurity, economic collapse, depleting resources and ...
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Kevin DeYoung, Church History for Everyone: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation (Volume 1) (Crossway, 2026) Kevin DeYoung, a conservative Presbyterian pastor with a ...
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God values justice. But how should Christians think about the principle when it comes to America’s racial history and our current social ills? In this video from CT’s Big Tent convening in Oakland, California, Malcolm Foley and Delano Squires sat down with Sho Baraka to discuss r...
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Since its publication earlier this month, Lucy S. R. Austen’s “What We Know—and Cannot Know—About Elisabeth Elliot’s Sexuality” has provoked many letters to the editor and comments on social media platforms, including substantial dialogue on Substack. We’re offering a small selec...
