Why not add your face to the Million Faces campaign in support of a global arms trade treaty? Every year,  roughly half a million men, women, and children around the world are killed by armed violence.

A report from the Institute of Medicine summarises the findings on the recent workshop on Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Finding a Place on the Global Agenda.

A brief from the Center of Global Development, Young Democracies in the Balance: Lessons for the International Community explores the reasons why the world’s fledgling democracies frequently backslide

This week UNICEF published it’s annual State of the World’s Children report, which highlights the ongoing global inequality in child survival

A Report from Medact, Rehabiliation Under Fire, describes how the 2003 war and its aftermath continue to have a disastrous impact on the physical and mental health of the Iraqi people

MSF’s annual ten most under reported humanitarian crises of 2007. Read more here

The Global Campaign for Education has just published the global school report card for 2008 which grades how countries throughout the world are doing on providing education and also grades donor governments!

The Podcast of the recent Alma Mata conference on the commercialisation and Health You can listen to the presentations from every speaker- Well worth a listen!

Our peer-reviewed feature by Aditi Das which discusses why 80% of patients with cancer  around the world do not have access to the pain relief they desperately need.

Our letter to a new medical student by medical ethics and law lecturer Daniel Sokol. But you don’t have to be “new” or even a “medical student” to appreciate it!