In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...
Makeshift huts crammed onto muddy hillsides. Water wells fouled by nearby toilets. Rapidly-spreading diseases. Health experts say overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the...
‘Deadly Disinformation: How online conspiracies about Syria cause real-world harm’ reveals how human rights defenders, victims of war crimes, journalists and humanitarians on the frontlines in...
Modern slavery effects 21 million victims on any given day. Exploited Hopes and Dreams in Modern Slavery explores the story of two victims in Switzerland and brings to light how traffickers prey on...
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 presents maps, charts, and stories related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses trends, comparisons, and measurement issues...
Visualizing AidData's publicly released dataset of country-to-country development finance activities (includes ODA, OOF flows, Equity Investments, and Export Credits) from 1973 to 2013.
The set of 31 voronoi maps show water points monitored over time by governments and development partners for indiviual countries.
The data is collected by the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx)...
Sunny Street is changing the world by providing heartfelt healthcare to our community’s most vulnerable people. They partnered with Viz for Social Good in collaboration to articulate their social...
For most of the 12 million people living with disabilities in Iran, basic needs such as healthcare, education and transportation are inaccessible. One of the main reasons why is because Iran has...
Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data...
Data on deaths from road accidents in different European countries are encrypted here in the form of an ornate plant motif - to drag the attention to Vision Zero program of the road safety.
How far does imaging the city in planning schools represent contextual urban realities? As a previous student and current practitioner of planning, I noticed two conflicting realities: the city as...
Climate change is a defining and urgent 21st century global challenge which threatens global security, economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, and public health. In an effort to address...
"The Impatient List" is a storytelling piece that calls the general public 's attention to patients of the kidney transplant in the United States. Organ transplantation is a highly collaborative...
In 2022, regular Russian shelling has repeatedly caused blackouts in Ukrainian cities.The last three months of the year were the darkest ones for Ukrainians.
We visualized the average number of...
UNDP’s Accelerator Labs were built in 2019 to change the way UNDP does development by learning what works and what doesn’t in sustainable development to reach the Sustainable Development Goals...
There are still many people in the world who experience hunger and have gone without food for days. The problem of hunger transcends beyond developing nations as it brings us to another topic of...
Today in the world there are 541 million young workers, accounting for over 15 per cent of the global labour force.
What does it mean to be young workers in 2018?
With 313 million workers...
This story aims to focus on miners, rather than the precious gems they dig from the earth – exploring the complexities and exploitation in the mining industry in parts of Asia.
We decided to...
Though it had no official name, the American air evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan, was one of the largest such operations in history. Over the course of 16 flight days, U.S. forces alone ferried...
This visualization is Nobel Laureates from 1901 to 2019 with a focus on age, collaboration, demographics, and the lack of representation of women in prize distributions. All work was completed in...
Maybe we might not see the impact of the environment if we choose to eat a steak today or pulse instead – but with every choice we can help to reduce emissions produced by food(production), the...
Natura &Co is compose of four global beauty brands - Aesop, Avon, Natura and The Body Shop - that share a commitment to sustainable and ethical business practices.
For their participation at...
Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a...
A circular visualization compares the food carbon footprint index for the year 2018 per continent and for all 130 countries listed.
The food carbon footrpint, provided by nu3, is estimated for...
In March 2021, I participated as a volunteer in Viz for Social Good's collaboration with Vera Aqua Vera Vita. “90 Seconds in Piura” is an interactive dashboard that shows the extent of the water...
During the civic-military dictatorship of Argentina, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police stations. Military bases expropriated houses and...