Rural women need enforceable rights to land, water, and natural resources; equal access to finance, markets, technology, and agricultural services; decent work, social protection and resilient infrastructure. Their unpaid care work must be recognized, reduced, and redistributed. The International
. HUMANITARIAN SITUATION Between January and July 2026, the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remained critical. Of the 2.3 million people in need, 1.3 million were targeted under the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). Only 471,600 people (36 per cent) receive...
Countries: World, Chad, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Yemen . This UNHCR update shares selected monthly highlights on the operationalization of the route-based approach, illustrating how protection-oriented responses to mixed and onward movements a...
. Since June this year, a cholera outbreak has been affecting the Popokabaka health zone, in DRC’s Kwango province. As of 22 July, 345 suspected cases and 21 deaths were reported across 26 of the health zone’s 35 health areas, representing a case fatality rate of 6.1 per cent. Mé...
. The Women’s Advisory Group in Sudan (WAG) expresses its deep concern over the rapidly deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Blue Nile State, including the recent attacks affecting Ed Damazin and the resulting new waves of displacement in Wad Al-Mahi locality. The...
Countries: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali . Arrivals from four major West African countries of origin fell by 59 per cent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to new data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). However, the fa...
Countries: World, Australia, Fiji, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), New Caledonia (France), New Zealand, Niue (New Zealand), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna (France) . Highlights/updates since the last map was sen...
Christ is the ultimate model of gentle strength. He didn’t hold his tongue before the Sanhedrin or Pilate. He said, “For this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37, ESV throughout). His entire ministry was public. He proclaimed the kingdom o...
In the spring of 2022, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the most politically polarizing judicial opinion of his entire career. The issue was abortion, a subject that had long divided the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative appointed by President George W. Bush, wa...
On September 30, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville made headlines for the horrific botched execution of Christa Pike. It was not the first botched execution at Riverbend: In May, the state’s attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed, causing Gov. Bill Lee to off...
