From Future Fridays to anti-government protests and employee-mobilization efforts, 2019 was a notable year in global collective action. This energy has carried into 2020 and gained streng...
Drones are increasingly being used in a wide range of humanitarian contexts. This does not always mean they’re useful, however.
As part of the World Economic Forum’s Hour of Pride initiative, we are showcasing commitments to support the LGBTQI+ community from our partners in business, civil society, government, ac...
As countries begin easing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures, calls to not “go back to normal” are getting louder. The pandemic has exposed systemic flaws and highlighted the drastic ine...
• Women and girls must be front and centre of coronavirus response and recovery.
“If you don’t have access to clean water, how can you be expected to wash your hands every hour?”
• Most people concede that public health currently trumps individual rights when it comes to the use of coronavirus data.
Did you know that some of your favorite foods may be produced with child labour? Take chocolate, for instance: 60% of its main ingredient, cocoa, is grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, wh...
One of the great disasters hiding inside the coronavirus catastrophe is the imminent loss of local news. Financial pressure on local news has increased, and very few organizations have th...
• Vaccine development plays other roles than curing the disease at hand.
• The global economy that emerges from COVID-19 must be better-equipped to deal with such crises.
• Jennifer Morgan, International Executive Director of Greenpeace, believes the response to COVID-19 will dictate action on climate change.
• Faith leaders from Christianity, Judaism and Islam support government efforts to control the coronavirus.
As COVID-19 cases begin to rise among the world’s most vulnerable populations – the poor and displaced, people living in crowded refugee camps – time is running out to prevent the pandemi...
The Democratic Republic of Congo will soon pass a milestone marking its success in the fight against Ebola. As Africa braces for COVID-19, one lesson from the DRC is that the best hope fo...
