Nation, World + Society

Researchers assessed 190 U.N. countries’ progress toward fulfilling their commitments to the right to education, protection from child labor and child marriage, and discrimination against children with disabilities.

Teachers in high-poverty schools are more likely than their peers in low-poverty schools to report instructional time that's lost due to poor access to libraries, technology and qualified substitute teachers, a new study by the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access found.

Elizabeth Pratt, who is working toward earning a master’s degree in public policy concurrently with her M.B.A. at the UCLA Anderson School, is one of three Anderson student recipients of the 2014 John Wooden Global Leadership Fellowship.

Robin D.G. Kelley, distinguished professor of history at UCLA, served as a consultant on the new documentary "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People."

At a climate change conference on campus today, UCLA researchers and other speakers are discussing the challenges facing cities around the world.

A UCLA study has found a trend at colleges toward teaching practices such as class discussions and group learning and away from lectures and other teacher-centered styles.

For 20 years master’s students in the social welfare program have learned firsthand about homelessness by going to downtown Los Angeles. Some never left.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will escort a delegation of Los Angeles leaders to China to attend a Nov. 19 ceremony celebrating UCLA Health’s partnership with Centre Testing International on an advanced medical laboratory in Shanghai.

An Army veteran working on his Ph.D. at UCLA says a new approach is needed to match veterans and their skills with private sector employers.

Year-round program aims to introduce entrepreneurship as a viable career path and foster entrepreneurial skills through individualized coaching, mentoring and business development.

Contrary to long-standing concerns, disadvantaged students don’t pay a penalty for attending community colleges, according to a UCLA-led study.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is betting big on women and girls to help developing countries lift themselves out of poverty, foundation co-chair Melinda Gates told a UCLA audience that filled Korn Convocation Hall on Nov. 5.

On the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, and co-authors Kristen Savage and Aleta Sprague examine the progress made toward securing children’s rights around the world.

The world has backed away from supporting contraception in the developing world because of politics, said the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For over 15 years, the Senior Fellows Leadership Program has been helping to prepare UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs students for careers as change agents in the world by pairing them with leaders in their fields as mentors.

Two scholars — one from UCLA and another from Chapman University — discuss the importance of train transportation in L.A.'s history and whether or not rail will play an integral role in the city's future.

UCLA professor Lynn Vavreck writes in The New York Times that if the Democrats lose the Senate, it would follow recent electoral history for the party of an unpopular president. Also, watch a video of Vavreck speaking about political TV ads.

UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library urges you to consult a 1665 treatise on the seven signs that witchcraft or necromancy is behind your ailments.

Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology, received an American Book Award on Oct. 26 for a history of the Black Panthers. He shares the prize with co-author Waldo Martin, a UC Berkeley historian.

Charitable giving in Los Angeles County has yet to return to pre-recession levels, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Civil Society at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

UCLA linguist Pamela Munro writes about the nearly forgotten language of the Gabrielino-Tongva Indians and her efforts to revive it for descendants of Southern California’s Tongva people.

Four centers — the Latin American Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Asia Institute and the National Heritage Language Resource Center — received Title VI funding for area and language studies.

UCLA education professor Sylvia Hurtado’s research on the effect of campus climate on student academic progress as well as on student and faculty retention has caught the attention of many in higher education.

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hope to increase the diversity of faculty by attracting high-caliber researchers and providing them with the professional development training and opportunities to help them compete for highly selective tenure-track positions.

Retired four-star Army General Wesley Clark discussed his latest book, “Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership” (Public Affairs 2014) and outlined a formula for American success in the 21st century.