Achieving Zero Traffic Fatalities Through Sustainable Safety
Sustainable Safety is a transportation policy that is currently used in the Netherlands to create safer roads and eliminate traffic fatalities. Since launching Sustainable Safety in 1992, the Netherlands has seen road infrastructure become safer and traffic fatalities decrease dramatically.
Girl Safety: Why Education is not Preparing Girls for the Real World
For every 6 in 10 South Sudanese males who have learned about mental health and emotional safety in their secondary education, zero South Sudanese girls had access to the same. The study featuring 29 South Sudanese found half the girls
Tackling Gender Equality through Technology and Crowdsourced Data
The recent #MeToo campaign on social media was revived by actor Alyssa Milano as a response to the sexual harassment allegations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein. She wrote on her social media timeline in mid-October: “If all the women who
Doctors Carrying Guns
Do No Harm is the well known Hippocratic mantra that is synonymous with the fundamental ethical way physicians practice medicine. This pledge is the ideal belief that most thoughtful, responsible doctors adopt as they build their career. Is there a
Don’t Panic. Just Prepare.
The Cascadia Earthquake is long overdue and is expected to hit the West Coast hard anytime between now and the next 50 years. We know it’s coming. The Big One. The overdue earthquake. We don’t know when, but it’s coming. For anyone
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth piece in a series exploring the Sustainable Development Goals. See the introduction to the series here. Why is it that some countries enjoy sustained levels of peace and prosperity while others remain trapped in cycles of war