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A woman walks amid a tent city set up by Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) after an earthquake in the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, November 1, 2020.

An Overlooked Need In Global Emergencies

by Bahar Aldanmaz

Amplified in crises, period poverty is often overlooked in government responses

Governance

The story title comes from Shakespeare: " The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to"—photo is of British actor Kenneth Branaugh holding a skull in the film Hamlet (1996). The photo shows the actor bathed in orange light and dressed in period garb holding a skull in a contemplative pose. GETTY IMAGES/Mondadori

The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19

by Kevin O’Rourke, Alize Ferrari

Assessing psychological impacts of coronavirus—the second in a two-part series on the mental health burden of COVID-19

A million blooming flowers—and then some! Here a woman works inside her mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on March 26, 2015. The photo shows a woman bending over in a field of bright yellow blossoms. REU-TERS/Danish Ismail

Governance

We Must Let a Million Flowers Bloom

by Poonam Muttreja

For India to thrive, the voluntary, non-governmental organization sector must survive