- Jim Yong Kim on the staggering cost of pandemics (nb: FT paywall).
- Bill, Melinda and the SDGs: Global Dashboard on controversy surrounding the Gates Foundation's criticism of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Regime change for humanitarian aid: Foreign Affairs essay on how to make relief aid more accountable.
- CFR Podcast on the potential dangers for global health of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
- The Washington Post on the UN's shocking record of enforcing its own 'zero transactional sex' policy for peacekeepers.
- World Refugee Day was celebrated on Saturday, 20 June. Disturbing new reports from UNHCR that worldwide displacement is at the highest levels ever recorded.
- Syria overtakes Afghanistan as the top source country for refugees.
Aid & development links: SDG controversy, Syria's refugees, TPP, pandemics and more
Published 22 Jun 2015
Follow @StephieDunstan
You may also be interested in
The stakes – who gets to construct the legal, economic, and military architecture of an integrated Indo-Pacific region – are enormous. Without bold policy from the US and India, the answer will be China.
As flygskam fever erupts, why not ration frequent flyers to save a global cost of travel on the flimsiest of pretexts?