Deeply Talks

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We discussed the latest Access to Nutrition Index with Inge Kauer, executive director at the Access to Nutrition Foundation, Paul Vos, senior research manager at the Access to Nutrition Foundation, and Simon Wright, the director of international development at Save the Children.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with U.C. Davis fisheries experts Peter Moyle and John Durand about the challenges and opportunities for restoration in the California Delta and a new roadmap to get us there.

Peacebuilding Deeply Talks with J.J. Messner of the Fund for Peace about the 2018 Fragile State Index, and how data can help inform policy decisions and peacebuilding efforts.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Managing Editor Megan Clement speaks with Deepta Chopra, Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, and Chidi King, Equality Director at the International Trade Union Confederation, about the burden of unpaid care for women, and the consequences of outsourcing that care. For more information on issues affecting women & girls in the developing world, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement and subscribe to our weekly emails.

In this episode of Deeply talks for Malnutrition Deeply, Meera Shekar, the global lead for nutrition with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice explains the need for nutrition funding, and the way ahead.

Jessica Leber, Oceans Deeply’s deputy managing editor, talks with Vicki Ferrini, a research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Seabed 2030’s regional coordinator, and Samuel Georgian, a marine biogeographer at the Marine Conservation Institute, about the Seabed 2030 project – how it will works and how the ocean community can participate.

5 of 6 - Deeply Talks: Making Sense of the Strike in Syria On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply discusses the fallout of the joint U.S., U.K. and France strike in Syria, and what it could mean for the conflict at large, the welfare of civilians, the persistence of ISIS and jihadi groups and the growing footprint of Iran and Russia in Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

4 of 6 - Deeply Talks: Making Sense of the Strike in Syria On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply discusses the fallout of the joint U.S., U.K. and France strike in Syria, and what it could mean for the conflict at large, the welfare of civilians, the persistence of ISIS and jihadi groups and the growing footprint of Iran and Russia in Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

1 of 6 - Deeply Talks: Making Sense of the Strike in Syria On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply discusses the fallout of the joint U.S., U.K. and France strike in Syria, and what it could mean for the conflict at large, the welfare of civilians, the persistence of ISIS and jihadi groups and the growing footprint of Iran and Russia in Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

3 of 6 - Deeply Talks: Making Sense of the Strike in Syria On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply discusses the fallout of the joint U.S., U.K. and France strike in Syria, and what it could mean for the conflict at large, the welfare of civilians, the persistence of ISIS and jihadi groups and the growing footprint of Iran and Russia in Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

2 of 6 - Deeply Talks: Making Sense of the Strike in Syria On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply discusses the fallout of the joint U.S., U.K. and France strike in Syria, and what it could mean for the conflict at large, the welfare of civilians, the persistence of ISIS and jihadi groups and the growing footprint of Iran and Russia in Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply’s community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor and John Fleck, the director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year’s snowpack, what that can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long-term climate change trends.

People smugglers use social media to advertise their services to refugees and migrants and quickly responding to changing routes and official restrictions. Smugglers and traffickers have also used social media to broadcast the abuse of migrants in order to extort their families. On this episode of Deeply Talks, we discuss how companies like Facebook should respond to the use of their platforms by people smugglers. Has social media made the journeys of migrants and refugees safer or more dangerous? The conversation with Leonard Doyle, spokesperson and director of media and communication at the U.N. migration agency (IOM), and Tuesday Reitano, deputy director at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and co-author of the book “Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour”, is moderated by Refugees Deeply’s managing editor, Charlotte Alfred. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

After at least 11 Congolese refugees were killed during a protest in Rwanda in February, Rwandan government and U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) representatives met with refugees at a football stadium near the Kiziba refugee camp on March 15. UNHCR Representative in Rwanda Ahmed Baba Fall responded to refugees' questions about whether they were under the responsibility ("in the hands of") the government of Rwanda or the UNHCR.

In our latest episode of Deeply Talks, we explored how a project in Timor Leste uses technology in a stunting reduction intervention. David Roach, the co-founder of Catalpa International spoke to our editors about the project and the lessons learnt.

This episode of Deeply Talks is live from the Economist World Ocean Summit in Mexico! Todd Woody, News Deeply’s executive editor for environment, talks with Fernando Secaira, director of climate & risk resilience Mexico for the Nature Conservancy, Mark Way, corporate climate lead at The Nature Conservancy, about a new public-private consortium that is taking out an insurance policy on a 37-mile (60km) section of the Mesoamerican Reef off Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. We’ll talk about why the government, the tourism industry, insurer Swiss Re and the Nature Conservancy have joined forces to insure a section of the reef, how the insurance policy will help preserve the corals and whether such financial innovations could help protect imperiled coral reefs elsewhere.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, which aired on the first day of the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), our editors examine this year’s theme: rural women and girls. Senior Editor Jumana Farouky and Community Editor Jihii Jolly examine the key questions we’re going to be covering on this issue in the coming months, from obstacles to obtaining land rights, to challenges in accessing decent infrastructure, and the impact of climate change. We are joined by humanitarian leader Vivian Onano and Beth Roberts, Attorney and Land Tenure Specialist at the Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights. For more information on issues affecting economic advancement for women, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Syria Deeply speaks to Dr. Annie Sparrow, a critical-care pediatrician and public health professional, and Dr. Mohamad Katoub, advocacy manager for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), about the deteriorating healthcare situation in East Ghouta, where hundreds of people have been killed over a period of just a few days. You can read up on our recent interview with Annie Sparrow here: https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2018/01/31/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-in-eastern-ghouta-sparrow For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Most images of refugees focus on “boats and camps,” even though this represents a fraction of the lives of the displaced. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Refugees Deeply's senior editor Daniel Howden discusses how to picture refugees differently with Kalpesh Lathigra, photographer, teacher and World Press Photo winner, and Jelena Jovicic, PhD candidate at the Stockholm University. For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

In our first episode of Deeply Talks, we discussed we discussed whether taxes on sugary drinks are working to curb consumption and if that translates into reduced rates of overweight and obesity. Our guests were Dr Lisa Powell, the division director of health policy and administration in the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health, and Dr. Laura Cornelsen, an assistant professor in public health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Philip Bachand, a water engineer and founder of the environmental engineering firm, Bachand & Associates, Daniel Mountjoy, the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation and Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch, about recharging groundwater and the crucial role that farms can play in this important effort.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Managing Editor Megan Clement speaks with Alan Gelb, director of studies at the Center for Global Development, Debdatta Saha, assistant professor of economics at South Asian University, and Atika Kemal, researcher at Anglia Ruskin University, how biometric ID systems can help, or hinder, women’s economic advancement. For more information on issues affecting economic advancement for women, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement and subscribe to our weekly emails.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Todd Woody, News Deeply's executive editor for environment, discusses how satellites, sensors, artificial intelligence and DNA scanners are creating powerful new tools to fight illegal fishing, with Mark Powell, Vulcan's senior ocean researcher, and Jake Hanft, an analyst at Schmidt Marine Technology Partners.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at the major issues and milestones to watch in 2018, including the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration and alternative models of refugee support, from development approaches to private sponsorship of refugees. The 30-minute conversation with Kathleen Newland, Senior Fellow and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, and Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor, is moderated by Charlotte Alfred, Refugees Deeply’s managing editor. You can read our earlier outline of the top refugee issues to watch in 2018 here: https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2018/01/12/the-top-refugee-issues-to-monitor-in-2018 For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks we announce the launch of our newest platform: Women's Advancement Deeply, which will focus on women's economic advancement in the developing world. Managing Editor, Megan Clement, and Senior Editor, Jumana Farouky, discuss some of the crucial issues we'll dig into in 2018, including the social, political and cultural barriers women and girls face in securing full economic equality. Our CEO and Executive Editor Lara Setrakian joins the call from the World Economic Forum in Davos, providing a look-back at the biggest discussions of the week with a focus on gender, in conversation with Alison Holder, director of Equal Measures 2030. For more information on women's economic advancement, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Through our partnership, Syria’s Women: Policies & Perspectives, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) and News Deeply challenged the stereotypes and generalizations about the impact of war on Syrian women and their role in the country’s future. Over the course of five months, we curated in-depth analysis, on-the-ground reporting and policy briefs, providing new perspectives on the role of Syrian women in education, peacebuilding, media, preserving cultural heritage, politics and the economy. We also covered underreported issues related to violence against women and barriers to women’s advancement to foster a nuanced and comprehensive understanding among the public and policymakers working to change these realities. You can catch up on the series here: www.newsdeeply.com/syria/series/syrias-women-policies-and-perspectives-syria www.timep.org/syrias-women/ On this episode of Deeply Talks in Partnership with TIMEP, Syria Deeply’s managing editor, Alessandria Masi, speaks with Hassan Hassan, senior fellow at TIMEP, Yisser Bittar, director of Development at Karam Foundation, Marvin Gate, founder of Humans of Syria, and Anna Lekas Miller, journalist and contributor to our series, about the changing role of women in the humanitarian, media and public sector and the future challenges women face in having a voice in traditionally male-dominated fields. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we take a closer look at some of the crucial issues we'll dig into in 2018, including reconciliation and de-escalation, development and reconstruction, and continued military conflicts across the country. Alessandria Masi, Syria Deeply’s managing editor, and Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor speak with Faysal Itani, Resident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

As California and other Western states begin to measure the (so far slowly) accumulating snowpack, we’re turning our attention to some of the biggest water issues that will be facing the region in 2018. What’s the fate of California WaterFix? Will California decide to allocate money to build its first big dam in decades? How will Western states cope with an increase in catastrophic wildfires and fund needed forest restoration? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, and Kimery Wiltshire, CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, about big issues to keep an eye on in 2018.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, we discuss our latest in-depth investigation: The Compact Experiment: Push for Refugee Jobs Confronts Reality of Jordan and Lebanon. Billions of dollars in aid and concessional loans were pledged to Lebanon and Jordan to create jobs for Syrian refugees, with some unexpected and often misunderstood results. Our reporting uncovered critical lessons for development economists, humanitarians and policy-makers. You can find the long read here: http://issues.newsdeeply.com/the-compact-experiment For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

The coming year will be a pivotal one for the ocean. United Nations delegates will begin negotiations to draft an international treaty to protect the biodiversity of the high seas – the 60 percent of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction Meanwhile, the International Maritime Organization is expected to issue greenhouse-gas reduction goals for shipping, a global industry not subject to the Paris climate agreement. And the movement toward sustainable aquaculture will accelerate as demand for seafood as a healthy source of protein to feed a growing world population rises, even as populations of wild fish decline. Jessica Leber, Ocean Deeply’s deputy managing editor, speaks with Peggy Kalas, director of the High Seas Alliance, Kathy Metcalf, president and chief executive of the Chamber of Shipping of America and Amy Novogratz, managing partner of the aquaculture-focused investment firm Aqua-Spark.

The eighth round of U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva faltered this month, to the disappointment of Syria envoy Steffan de Mistura, who called failed negotiations a “missed opportunity." Russia, on the other-hand, is hoping that upcoming Moscow-backed negotiations in the Kazakh capital of Astana and the Russian city of Sochi will yield a political settlement for the Syrian war. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Hashem Osseiran, deputy managing editor, speaks with Rami Khouri, senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut and non-resident senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, and Max Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, about the prospects and challenges of a settlement for Syria. For more information on the war in Syria, visit www.newsdeeply.com/syria and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Women & Girls Managing Editor Megan Clement speaks with Dr. Hassan Abdi of UNFPA and journalist Katie Arnold, about how best to provide sexual and reproductive healthcare to Rohingya women and girls. For more information on issues affecting women & girls in the developing world, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls and subscribe to our weekly emails.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Charlotte Alfred speaks with Elizabeth Ferris, acting director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University and former co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, and Oscar Ivan Rico Valencia, adviser to the deputy director at the Victims’ Unit of the Government of Colombia about opportunities to better tackle internal displacement and the lessons from Colombia, the country with the highest number of internally displaced people in the world. You can read more about their and other experts’ insights on refocusing attention on internal displacement here: https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/11/16/expert-views-what-would-refocus-attention-on-internal-displacement For more information on the global refugee crisis, visit www.newsdeeply.com/refugeesdeeply and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Kirsten James, the director of California policy and partnerships at Ceres, Lindsay Bass, the head of WWF's Corporate Water Stewardship Initiative and Marco Ugarte, the sustainability manager at MillerCoors about how water is used by food and beverage industries.

Todd Woody, News Deeply’s executive editor for environment, talks with Dune Ives, executive director of the Lonely Whale Foundation, Susan Fife-Ferris, director of Solid Waste Planning and Program Management for Seattle Public Utilities and David Rhodes, global business director for paper straw maker Aardvark about Seattle’s efforts to fight ocean plastic pollution and how other cities might follow its example.

On this episode of Deeply Talks, Women & Girls Managing Editor Megan Clement speaks with Dr. Sharmila Rudrappa, director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and reporter Flora Bagenal, about the debate around commercial surrogacy in India. For more information on issues affecting women & girls in the developing world, visit www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls and subscribe to our weekly emails.