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Piloting Humanitarian Biometrics in Yemen Format Aid Transparency versus Violation of Privacy? The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Brief Points use of biometrics in Yemen is a prime example of challenges related to the use of biometric solutions in humanitarianism. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world and it is deteriorating. More than 24 million people – 80 percent of the population – require some form of assistance, and of those more than 16 million are in acute need. For one of the major players in the humanitarian field, the WFP, the current emergency response in ...

Children at Risk of Wartime Sexual Violence, 1990–2019 Format Nagel, Robert; Ragnhild Nordås; Gudrun Østby; Siri Aas Rustad & Andreas Forø Tollefsen (2021) Children at Risk of Wartime Sexual Violence, 1990–2019, Conflict Trends, 1. Oslo: PRIO. In 2019, approximately 72 million Brief Points children were living in a conflict zone where one or more armed actors were reported to perpetrate sexual violence against children. By this metric of risk, we also find that the number of children at risk of wartime sexual violence has increased since the 1990s. This brief presents new subnational e...

Build the economy for america and the world. >> you know, joe, it's sad that it's almost impossible to imagine trump having that kind of constructive conversation with his global partners. that's what the g7 -- once the g8 was all about. it was to deal with economic disruptions that matter to each of these great countries. you know, i'd make two brief points. first at home. i think i'm increasingly concerned about what extreme measures donald trump will try to take to keep this recovery alive. ways to keep the sugar high of tax cuts going with payroll or capital gains taxes that might not othe...

By the way, if they have red and blue jerseys, i would welcome my colleagues to introduce the legislation that ends lifetime tenure for the judiciary. if they're just politicians, then the people should have power, and they shouldn't have lifetime appointments. so until you introduce that legislation, i don't believe you really want the supreme court to be a politicized body. though, that's the way we constantly talk about it now. we can and should do better than this. it's predictable that every confirmation hearing now is going to be overblown, politicized circus. and it's because we've acce...