Over 2 Million Children Have Never Been Vaccinated in Nigeria. This Health...
When Yagana Maina, a health worker in Nigeria's Borno state, was educating community members on vaccinations, she was surprised to hear Abubakar, the father of a baby girl, say he would not vaccinate...
View Article8 Movies & TV Shows That Champion Periods and Menstruation
Our world is a web of systems and norms which also, unfortunately, drive taboo and stigma. As a result of entrenched gender inequality, periods and menstruation are often surrounded by shame and...
View ArticleThis Afghan Activist Is Fighting for Girls’ Education Despite Living in Exile
“This is a reminder of the urgent need for all of us to give attention towards girls’ education in Afghanistan.”Those were the words of Pashtana Durrani, a social and political rights activist and...
View ArticleHow #AlwaysBloodSisters Is Fighting Period Poverty in South Africa
Did you know that, every year, there’s a day dedicated to raising awareness about periods and all the issues that surround periods — from period poverty, to stigma, to menstrual inequity, to the fact...
View ArticleWhat’s Going on in Sudan? And How Can I Help?
There is an ongoing conflict in Sudan. Its cause is somewhat ambiguous, and its end is unpredictable; but what we know for sure is that more than half of the country’s estimated 46 million population...
View ArticleThis Health Worker Walks 6 Hours to Vaccinate Children in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Amhara region, located in the north of the country, is characterized by plains, gorges, hills, and mountains. A picturesque landscape, it poses an incredible challenge for those needing to...
View ArticleSDRs: The Money Hack That Could Help Poor Countries Fight Climate Change and...
When the proverbial poop hits the proverbial fan on a global scale, the International Monetary Fund (a major financial agency of the UN — think of it as a bank that does good in this scenario) dusts...
View ArticleTaxing the World’s Biggest Polluters Could Unlock Billions in Climate...
The impacts of climate change are becoming clearer than ever, with extreme weather events of ever greater frequency and strength costing lives and livelihoods all around the world. But what doesn’t...
View ArticleFor These Rohingya Refugee Children, Play Is the Key to Education and Hope
The students in Ismat Ara Jannat Sheuly’s class are having too much fun. There's no doubt that they're learning, but they're doing it through “play”.Sheuly’s school, the Shishu Bikash Kendra (SBK)...
View ArticleHow Do War & Conflict Impact Education?
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of violence. “We were getting ready to sleep when we heard shouting, we saw men wearing dark green clothes with guns, axes, and machetes,” Bright...
View ArticleAma Ata Aidoo: 11 Powerful Quotes From the Late, Great Author & Feminist
As the saying goes, “legends do not die, they multiply”. This is undoubtedly true when it comes to the late Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, and academic, Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo. Her influence and...
View ArticleWhat Inspires an Idea in Accenture’s Sustainability Innovation Challenge?
History shows that a good idea can come from anywhere, especially in the technology sector, where teams collaborate all the time to solve problems.Global Citizen partner Accenture’s Sustainability...
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Russia Just Ended a Critical Grain Export Deal With Ukraine. What Does That...
By Anna Nagurney, Professor and Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass AmherstThe Russia-Ukraine grain deal that has been critical to keeping global food prices stable and preventing...
View ArticleThe Global Hunger Crisis: If the World Has Enough Food Why Are People Still...
Food is essential to our existence; we literally cannot survive without it. Yet around the world, there are hundreds of millions of people who can't get enough to eat and who have no idea where their...
View Article7 Facts That Show the World’s Food Systems Are Broken
The world’s hunger crisis is deepening. Global conflict and climate change have taken damaging blows to the world’s food systems, and are two of the biggest reasons why levels of food insecurity and...
View ArticleCan AI Boost Food Security? This Kenyan Innovator Breaks It Down for Us.
Food is not only life, it is community. We gather, we sit, we share stories, we steal tastes, we tear bread, we slurp soup, we lick spoons; food isn’t just part of the human story, food is the human...
View Article5 Resources for Your (Digital) Back-to-School Checklist
Everyone knows the hustle and bustle of preparing for a new school year: fresh notebooks, new clothes, and an array of school supplies lined up ready for action.However, as we gear up for the new...
View Article6 Actions You Can Take Right Now to Fight the Hunger Crisis
The year 2023 kicked off with former World Food Programme chief, David Beasely, warning us about how severe the current hunger crisis actually is. “We may not have enough food for everybody in 2023,”...
View Article17 Ways to Help After the Deadly Morocco Earthquake
Editor's note: The situation in Morocco is actively evolving, as are the needs of citizens in the country. We will be keeping this list up to date with the evolving ways Global Citizens can help in the...
View Article16 Ways to Help After the Deadly Libya Floods
Editor's note: This article was updated on Sept. 14 to reflect a statement from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) made on Sept. 13. The situation in Libya is actively evolving, as are the...
View ArticleWhat Does the Global Food Crisis Actually Look Like? Global Citizens Share...
Food is essential to our very existence. It gives us energy for the day, but it’s also a way to connect with our friends, family, different cultures, and communities. Yet, access to food is not equal...
View ArticleThese Always Period Heroes & #BloodSisters Are Putting an End to Period Poverty
It’s not every day you see a crowd of tens of thousands people making noise about periods, but that’s exactly what happened on Sept. 23 in New York City’s Central Park, as Global Citizen Ambassador...
View ArticleAfghanistan Earthquakes: 13 Ways You Can Help Survivors
Editor's note: The situation in Afghanistan is actively evolving, as are the needs of citizens in the country. We will be keeping this list up to date with the evolving ways Global Citizens can help in...
View ArticleIsrael-Palestine: How to Help Victims of the Conflict
Editor's note: The situation in Israel and Palestine is actively evolving, as are the needs of civilians in the region. This article is being regularly updated.On Saturday Oct. 7, the terrorist group...
View ArticleMillions Pledged for Farmers at Global Citizen Festival. Now Join the...
“IFAD’s impact is undeniable.” These are the words of Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation, referring to the work of the International Fund for Agricultural Development...
View Article‘Polio Can Never Stop Me’: This Survivor Is Fighting for Disability Rights in...
When Lois Auta had a high fever as a toddler, her mother rushed her to the hospital, knowing that she was sick — but never thinking the fever would alter the course of their lives. Within hours of...
View ArticleAfrica Needs Millions More Engineers To Tackle Its Challenges. This Teacher...
Applications for the 2024 Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award are open from Nov. 1, 2023, until Dec. 15, 2023, at 5 p.m. PT. Find out more and apply now.Water level sensors that help to...
View ArticleHow a Women-Led Volunteer Group Is Immunizing Children in Nigeria
"If these were your children, you wouldn't vaccinate them."That is what a father in Bauchi state, Nigeria once told Furera Aliyu, a community health worker who was going door-to-door encouraging...
View ArticleThis Inspiring Smallholder Farmer Is Tackling Period Poverty in Kenya
Wangari Kuria, founder of Farmer on Fire and 2023 Global Citizen Prize Winner, is celebrated for her dedication to social justice, environmentalism, and her work empowering women farmers across the...
View ArticleOpen Letter: Farmers, Indigenous Peoples & Youth Call for Investment in IFAD...
IFAD Replenishment: Open letter from Farmers’ Organizations, Indigenous Peoples, and Youth on IFAD13 Excellencies, We, the representatives of the Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples Forum at...
View Article7 Ways Climate Change Is Already Making Our Health Worse
The climate emergency presents a fundamental threat to human health, touching every aspect of the environment as well as human and natural systems including the functioning of health care...
View ArticleThe UK Is Hosting a Global Food Summit. Here’s Why You Should be Paying...
On Nov. 20, the UK will host the Global Food Security Summit where leading experts will come together to “tackle the causes of food insecurity and malnutrition, including through cutting edge UK funded...
View ArticleEducation Saves Lives. No, Really, it Does. Here’s Why.
“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be...
View Article5 Facts That Show Women Deserve Better Access to Health Care
Do women and girls deserve access to health care? It’s a harsh question to ask (and should have a very easy answer) but each time a woman dies in childbirth, or has lower access to life-saving...
View ArticleBeyoncé and Global Citizen Fellowship Empowers 50 Young Africans and Leaders...
Picture a scenario where you have the opportunity to nurture the leaders of tomorrow, guide their learning, and empower them to follow their passions. The Global Citizen Fellowship Program, supported...
View ArticlePolio Doesn’t Respect Borders — But Neither Do Vaccines
Jibran Khan has been a polio vaccinator on the Pakistani side of the Torkham border crossing for the past 10 years. It’s a key crossing, connecting Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with Nangarhar...
View ArticleMeet the Polio Survivor Making Zambia More Accessible for People With...
Miyoba Hamuhuma still remembers what it felt like to lay in bed as a child, unable to move freely or access the place he loved the most — school. “Sometimes I was just in my room crying, ‘Oh mom, where...
View ArticleCiti Foundation Announces 2024 Global Innovation Challenge to Support...
Imagine this — you work for a community organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to social and economic challenges facing low-income communities around the world – and one day you...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Australia to Rejoin IFAD, and This Open Letter Tells Us Why
OPEN LETTER: May 31, 2023Dear Foreign Minister Penny Wong; International Minister for International Development Pat Conroy; Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Murray Watt; Shadow Foreign...
View ArticleWhat Following the Story of Bread Can Teach Us About Skyrocketing Hunger
The “breadline” is more than a metaphor; it is a daily struggle faced by millions of people worldwide who can’t afford basic food. As the number of people facing hunger rises dramatically around the...
View ArticleWater Has Long Been Used As a Tactical Weapon In Warfare — The World Now Has...
By Mark Zeitoun, Professor of Water Security at University of East Anglia.Water nourishes, cleanses, and even inspires the poetry and painting so desperately needed by our modern and rushed society. We...
View ArticleBeyond Cervical Cancer: How Rwanda Is Leading the Fight to Vaccinate Girls
“I bled and bled again, until I felt there was no more blood in my body.”Age 65, Pascasie Nyirahirwa slipped into a coma and was rushed to the nearest hospital in Cyangugu, southwestern Rwanda where...
View ArticleHow P&G Is Working to Revitalize Critical Water Resources in Partnership With...
We need water. Not just in the sense that we need it to quench our thirst or wash our laundry – those things are important, of course, but more than anything, we need water to survive. The problem is...
View Article10 Years Ago, India Was Declared Polio-Free. Here’s Where We Stand in the...
On March 27, 2014, India was officially certified polio-free by the World Health Organization (WHO). Thanks to an aggressive and adaptable vaccination campaign that lasted years and reached every...
View ArticleThis Cisco Youth Leadership Award Winner is Providing Safe Water Access to...
Water is one of the most vital resources the world has, and as the climate crisis slowly sips the earth dry of the finite resource, out-of-the-box innovations are the key to making sure those in need...
View Article7 Ways Plastic Is Poisoning Us (That You Probably Didn’t Know)
It has been found in Arctic sea ice, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet; at the bottom of the world’s deepest ocean trench, at thirty-six thousand feet below sea level. It’s...
View ArticleThis 2024 Global Citizen Prize Winner is Pioneering Change in the Global...
In the realm of humanitarian work, Sophie Healy-Thow is a force for change and innovation — particularly where nutrition is involved. As the founder of youth-led campaign Act4Food, her aim has been to...
View ArticleWhy People Across the US Are Growing Their Own Food – And Why You Should Too
The global food system has a lot of problems. Powerful companies dominate the market — from seeds to supermarkets — and dictate what farmers grow, how much they're paid, and what consumers eat.In...
View ArticleCancer Is Killing Women in the Global South at Higher Rates. This Doctor is...
Cancer is not an equal illness. If you get lucky, you’ll whiz through the tests, get an early diagnosis, receive treatment, and live a long and healthy life in remission. But for those living in...
View ArticleMeet the Global Citizen Prize Winner Using Digital Solutions to Transform...
In the bustling city of Kampala, Uganda, amidst the challenges of poverty and limited access to healthcare, a visionary named Andrew Ddembe emerged from humble beginnings with a determination to enact...
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