It’s a date that should go down in history — a stain on our collective conscience. On June 14th, 2023, the Adriana, a fishing boat carrying 750 people, capsized in the Mediterranean. The more than 600 deaths were entirely preventable. And yet the world barely flinched. Few were interested in…

We now know for sure: Our world is boiling. July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. This record-shattering heat tells us terrifying climate change is in full swing. And scientists’ models suggest this is only the beginning. Record breaking heat, wildfires, flooding and extreme weather are already devastating…

One night not long ago I found myself sitting in my local IMAX theatre watching a summer blockbuster. No, not that one, the other one — the one about the bomb. I was gripped, and not only by the special effects. …

Brutal wars, scorching heat, the soaring global cost of living. Doomy headlines are driving growing numbers of people to stop seeking out the latest updates about our troubled world. But communicators and journalists take note: there is an antidote to news avoidance. All of us need to switch off from…

Our information ecosystem is now so polluted with lies and hate that voices for positive change are seriously struggling to make themselves heard. In all my years in communications, I can’t say I ever worked in such a troubled environment. And the stakes are growing higher by the day as…

Last year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, sent a much-needed political signal: those on the frontlines of the climate crisis are being heard. The decision to establish a fund to compensate vulnerable countries for the losses and damages they incur due to climate shocks is an important step toward justice. …

UN peacekeepers face greater dangers today than at any time in recent history. That’s because they aren’t only pitted against guns and explosives, but also disinformation. Hate and lies have become increasingly popular weapons of war. And they can be as deadly as conventional missiles. By disinformation I mean deliberate…

Online antisemitism is as old as the internet. At first largely confined to the extremist fringe, in recent years we’ve seen anti-Jewish hate speech leaching from far-right forums onto mainstream platforms. Alarm bells are ringing. We must urgently confront online hate while upholding freedoms. Fringe extremist web communities have long…

News outlets criminalized for critical reporting. Journalists hounded on social media, or even killed, for speaking truth to power. Cash-strapped newsrooms scraping by with a skeleton staff. This is current state of our global free press in the wake of multiple political and financial assaults. Warnings that independent media, and…