SDG Overview Regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals intended to provide quantitative data on each country’s development progress, Syria ranks 130th of 166 countries and territories. Syria particularly lags behind its regional counterparts ...
“The Monk and the Gun,” a 2023 Bhutanese film written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, was theatrically released in the United States on Feb. 9, 2024. The film tells two concurrent stories. The first is of Bhutan’s mock elections ...
2024 marks the tenth anniversary and the conclusion of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) #IBelong Campaign, a decade-long push to resolve statelessness around the globe. Although statelessness can seem like a simple phenomenon, it is, in reality, ...
Democracy in global decline, full-blown conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and Western hegemony up for grabs — this is the reality for a unipolar world increasingly challenged by multipolarity. The challenge in question? China. Although the United States ...
How Brazil may willingly tank its economy through the establishment of a joint trade currency with Argentina. Brazil, a pioneer for the Global South and Latin America’s self-proclaimed regional leader, has long been recognized as a potential power in the ...
Over the last decade, the Syrian Civil War has displaced over half of Syria’s population, with more than 3.5 million people seeking refuge in the neighboring country of Turkey. Turkey has taken in more Syrian refugees than any other country, ...
As the U.S. presidential election draws closer to its Nov 5 deadline, campaigns are on, candidates trade barbs and citizens on all sides rally or succumb to existential dread. There is undeniably a lot at stake for this election; domestic ...
Electronics have become an indispensable part of daily life for most of the world. People pick up their electronic devices without thinking twice, and often without purpose. One key element of these electronics is microchips, also known as semiconductors. Semiconductors ...
On April 27, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an executive decree stating Russia would deport all Ukrainian citizens who did not accept a Russian passport by July 1, 2024. The President declared that whoever did not follow this policy ...
Across the globe, there is a blood shortage crisis — governments are faced with a responsibility to fulfill the social contract to protect the health infrastructure and their people. When the government is presented with a crisis, the consensus is ...