A discussion of our new long-form investigation on the rights of migrant domestic workers in the Gulf.

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Deeply Talks: Domestic Workers in the Gulf

Peacebuilding Deeply: Women and Negotiating Peace

Venezuelan Refugees: Regional Solidarity, Global Significance

In this episode, we talk to Kathleen Pellecia, a nutrition knowledge management specialist at Alive & Thrive, to understand the challenges on both an international and national level to encouraging exclusive breastfeeding.

Malnutrition Deeply: Challenges in Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding

In our July episode of Deeply Talks, experts join us to discuss how to engage men in the pursuit of women’s rights and talk about their own journeys as male advocates for gender equality.

Deeply Talks: Engaging Men in Women's Advancement

Statewide regulations and local innovations are all contributing to making water conservation a “California way of life.” Listen to two experts explain the implications of California’s new water efficiency laws and highlight promising trends in conservation throughout the state.

Water Conservation and Efficiency Challenges

Plastic straws are designed to be used once, but they remain in the environment forever, contributing to the ocean pollution crisis. In recent weeks, multinational corporations like Starbucks, Bacardi, Alaska Airlines and others have committed to addressing the problem at its source by pledging to eliminate single-use plastic straws. In this episode of Deeply Talks, Todd Woody, News Deeply’s executive editor for environment, discusses this phenomenon with Dune Ives, executive director of the environmental group Lonely Whale, whose “Stop Sucking” campaign helped kickstart the movement.

Big Business Joins the Fight Against Ocean Plastic

Deeply Talks from Malnutrition Deeply: Climate change will have significant, long-lasting effects on food and nutrition. A major study published recently in Science Advances showed one such example. The research revealed how rice grown in higher levels of carbon dioxide has lower amounts of key nutrients. This will have a significant impact, particularly on communities that depend on rice as a vital source of nutrients. For this episode of Deeply Talks we spoke to two researchers Irakli Loladze and Dr. Kristie Ebi to explore what this could mean for consumers, policymakers and the private sector, and to think about the broader implications for our diets.

Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Nutrition

In many parts of the world, the loss of a husband is just the first in a lifetime of tragedies a widow must endure. Widows can be stigmatized, stripped of their inheritance and property rights, and denied the chance to find work. Neglected by authorities and overlooked by researchers, widows are often invisible, left to raise their children and care for their relatives in poverty. In this episode of Deeply Talks, we explore issues affecting widows and the unique disadvantages they face as they try to earn a living and care for their families. Read more at www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement

Deeply Talks: Widows' Rights

In 2014, California voters approved a water bond that allocated $2.7 billion to fund the public benefits of new water storage projects. The California Water Commission has been reviewing a list of potential projects and will be announcing how much funding eligible projects will receive. Will California get its first new dam in decades? Will groundwater storage projects receive a boost? And how are the “public benefits” of these projects being evaluated? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, discusses these questions and more with Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and Rachel Zwillinger, water policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.

Deeply Talks: New Water Storage in California

A conversation with Tiffany Easthom, Executive Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce, about the role of unarmed civilian protection in peacebuilding. As the methodologies of unarmed civilian protection become more accepted into the mainstream peacebuilding community, we examine how it impacts local communities and how it helps to lay the groundwork for further peacebuilding initiatives.

Deeply Talks: Unarmed Civilian Protection

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, speaks with author and water expert Sandra Postel about her newest book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, and about today’s major water problems, and solutions.

Deeply Talks: A Conversation with Sandra Postel

Every week, we hear about gridlock in Washington, D.C., attacks on science and new environmental rollbacks. As ocean issues become more prominent on the global stage, will the United States be left behind? Are there areas where progress can be made? After spending a week in Washington for Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) and moderating a Congressional roundtable on bipartisan action, Jessica Leber, deputy managing editor of Oceans Deeply, discusses these questions with CHOW organizer Kristen Sarri, chief executive of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

Deeply Talks: U.S. Ocean Politics in 2018 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This edition of Deeply Talks: Lessons from Europe’s Migration Laboratory, features a conversation with Bram Frouws, Head of the Mixed Migration Centre, and Elizabeth Collett, Director of the Migration Policy Institute Europe, moderated by Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor and co-author of Europe’s Migration Laboratory.

Deeply Talks: Lessons from Europe’s Migration Laboratory

As more and more investors decide to put their money behind women entrepreneurs worldwide, the emerging field of gender lens investing is taking hold. In 2017 alone, investment focused on women and girls eclipsed $2.2 billion, an all-time record. In this episode of Deeply Talks, we explored the history of this field and why 2018 is such a big year for investing in women.

Deeply Talks: Gender Lens Investing

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