Suicide in the World: Global Health Estimates

This Lancet Series examines and evaluates the health and well-being of the nearly 1 billion people currently living in slums. The authors discuss opportunities to alleviate the health burdens and improve the social characteristics of such neighborhoods, while calling for a more established discipline of study to further analyze the possibilities for those living in these conditions. They conclude that awareness must be raised if sufficient gains are to be made in developing solutions to…

This report from Sustainable Mobility for All evaluates the transport sector, including road, air, water, and rail transportation systems, to assess global progress toward four key sustainability and mobility objectives: universal access, system efficiency, safety, and green mobility. The report disaggregates the quantitative and qualitative goals and explores transport-related indicators across 183 countries, which form the Global Tracking Framework for Transport (GTF). The report explores transport system performance and country-level progress toward sustainable mobility, analyzing…

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a crisis mapping and data analysis project focused on political violence and protest events worldwide. Created in 2005, the ACLED collects real-time data on dates, actors, locations, deaths, and types of reported political violence and global conflict events. The ACLED aims to collect high-quality, disaggregated data on global conflict and violence and conducts analysis exploring and describing conflict scenarios and patterns for practitioners, researchers, governments,…