Focus on Civilians in Conflict: Health Workers
When medical workers are killed, the human toll is not just their lives, but also the exponential number of people who will suffer without treatment and ultimately add to the death toll.
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Focus on Civilians in Conflict: Journalists
Without public trust in a cause, that cause will lack the material goods it needs to survive, leaving journalists as the first greatest enemy in a warzone and truth as the first greatest casualty.
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Focus on Civilians in Conflict: Elderly and Disabled
Although the elderly and disabled are considered protected classes, millions still suffer from abuse, discrimination, social and political exclusion, negligence in humanitarian settings, and denial and rationing of health care each year.
Read MoreFOCUS on Spring 2024 Elections: Indonesia
Foreign policy, re-emergence of dictatorial regimes, misinformation, and trivialization of campaigns permeates Indonesia’s 2024 elections. How the population responds will be a better view into the mind and feelings of the young voter.
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Focus on Modern Piracy: Gulf of Guinea
With at least nine vessels attacked and 89 crew hijacked for ransom at the end of 2019, the Gulf of Guinea is now considered one of the most dangerous routes for international shipping.
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Focus on Modern Piracy: Singapore Straits
Southeast Asia, despite common misconceptions, is actually the world’s most active piracy zone. The UN declared the waters of Southeast Asia to be “the most dangerous in the world.”
Read MoreFocus on Modern Piracy: Online Piracy
In the years since computer scientist Tim-Burners Lee created the “World Wide Web” in 1990, online piracy has been on the rise, ranging from the simple film or music piracy that people around the world regularly indulge in, to data piracy by powerful states collecting massive caches of documents, emails, and analytics data from their rivals.
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Focus on Modern Piracy: Horn of Africa
With just one of these cargo ships, pirates can make millions worth of dollars than with conventional jobs. With such financial motivation, the path to piracy is easier as ever.
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Focus on Escalation: Iraq
Demonstrations erupted in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and in several provinces across Iraq.
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Focus on Escalation: Ecuador
Anew policy has been implemented ending the state’s over forty-year-old fuel subsidy and launching Ecuador into the worst protests the country has seen in decades, forcing an official “state of emergency.”
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