Recent reports on global human progress over the past 50 years claim the world is getting better, but they give only a small piece of the story. The

This site has two pillars, understanding suffering and enabling compassion. We merged much of the content from our website, CompassionateSocieties.org, into WorldSuffering.org in early 2015, creating a new logo and

Suffering in Word Pictures: While we generally associate extreme poverty with other parts of the world, it can be found in tragic proportions in wealthy countries, especially the

Contemporary human suffering is the focus of Independent Lens PBS film documentary, Half the Sky, named after the book by Kris Kristof and Wu Dunn. This documentary aired on

Sisters Camrey, 5, and Anaiah, 9, from a small town in Georgia, near Atlanta, each school day held hands and ran or skipped across the street to catch