World Watch Archives

Climate Action: Loss and Damage

by Thomas Gould | Dec 4, 2023 | Departments, Winter 2024, World Watch

Thomas Gould writes on how Climate change can be costly and often leaves damage affecting those who contribute the least to causing it.

World Watch: Fresh Pain from Old Wounds

by Thomas Gould | Jun 1, 2023 | Departments, Featured Stories, Summer 2023, World Watch

The hardening authoritarianism of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has led to the exile of 222 prisoners, the imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Alvarez and many others, and “traitor” laws which strip dissenters of their citizenship.

World Watch: New Focus for Nuclear Disarmament

by Thomas Gould | Mar 1, 2023 | Departments, Spring 2023, World Watch

The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns gives an update on the world’s progress — or lack of progress — toward nuclear disarmament.

Ukrainians Are Latest Wave of Refugees

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Jun 1, 2022 | Departments, Summer 2022, World Watch

In the first month alone, the Russian invasion of Ukraine drove an estimated 10 million people from their homes, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

World Watch: ‘A Different Kind of Economy’

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Mar 1, 2022 | Spring 2022, World Watch

Pope Francis’ Economy of Francesco invites young economists and entrepreneurs from around the world to envision a new global economy.

World Watch: Treaties Foster Disarmament

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Dec 1, 2021 | Winter 2022, World Watch

International treaties on nuclear weapons and papal teaching on disarmament urge countries to take further steps toward peace.

2021: A Year Highlighting Child Labor

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Jun 1, 2021 | Summer 2021, World Watch

The United Nations has named 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor, which involves an estimated 152 million children worldwide.

Water Defenders Face Dangerous Challenge

by Kathleen Kollman Birch | Mar 1, 2021 | Spring 2021, World Watch

A new book documents how courageous water defenders in El Salvador made the Central American country the first nation in the world to ban metal mining.