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These Trailblazers Are Taking Action to Make Gender Equality Real

These Trailblazers Are Taking Action to Make Gender Equality Real

What are the biggest obstacles to gender equality? Female leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists tackled these and other vital questions at the SDG Action Zone on Gender. Kicking off with the prime minister of the first

Governance
EU/UN Partnership Leads On the Plight of Women in Afghanistan

EU/UN Partnership Leads On the Plight of Women in Afghanistan

“Violence against women is a pandemic,” says Dr. Denis Mukwege at yesterday’s high level Women in Conflict event, in New York. Led by EU Council President, Charles Michel, the focus was primarily on the plight

Climate
Newest Government Role: Chief Heat Officer

Newest Government Role: Chief Heat Officer

Fancy a job in a hot seat? They don’t come much hotter than the new positions just created in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Athens, Greece. The role of chief heat officer has emerged as part

Climate
Don’t Despair, These Climate Leaders Are Taking Action

Don’t Despair, These Climate Leaders Are Taking Action

This week’s report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers a catastrophic assessment of the speed at which the planet is warming and the time we have to avert disaster. While many are

Governance
Two Scientists Envision the U.S.’s Proposed Pandemic Preparedness Agency

Two Scientists Envision the U.S.’s Proposed Pandemic Preparedness Agency

Imagine if we had a centralized system that could anticipate viruses like COVID-19. One that also predicted the probability infection would spread along with its impact so we could act before it takes hold. The

Governance
Maryum Saifee on Evolving Public Service for the 21st Century

Maryum Saifee on Evolving Public Service for the 21st Century

Public service needs to reinvent itself, so that it’s equal, inclusive and diverse, allowing staff to seamlessly move between the public and the private sector. That’s the view of Maryum Saifee, a leader of the

Citizenship & Rights
The Policies That Did Most For Women

The Policies That Did Most For Women

This is International Women’s History Month. So what better time to take a look at the policies around the world that have done most to advance women? Driving Change has been looking at the most

Governance
75 pivotal public policies: international criminal police (interpol)

75 pivotal public policies: international criminal police (interpol)

Although the first International Criminal Police Congress took place in 1914 and the International Criminal Police Commission emerged nine years later, the agency came under Nazi control in 1938 and was effectively moribund until being

Governance
75 pivotal public policies: the creation of the defense advanced research projects agency

75 pivotal public policies: the creation of the defense advanced research projects agency

The agency that became the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was created in 1958, one year after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, causing fears in the United States that the country

Governance
75 pivotal public policies: Colombia’s peace deal

75 pivotal public policies: Colombia’s peace deal

In August 2016, a peace deal was announced between Colombia’s President, Santos, and the FARC paramilitary group. This followed four years of negotiations, many hosted by the government of Cuba, to end a deadly domestic

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