CO2 emissions in ASEAN from transport sector will double by 2050, warns energy agency

If the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to be believed, the amount of carbon emissions from transport in ASEAN nations will double by 2050. At the same time, carbon emi...

Pharrell Williams And Friends Raise Their Voices Against Child Labour

Pharrell Williams, Producer/composer/guitarist Mike Einziger, composer Hans Zimmer and Blink-182’s Travis Barker are among the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy ...

Matt Sorum Drums Up Musicians’ Support for U.S. Ivory Ban

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, legendary Grammy Award-winning drummer of Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, The Cult and Kings of Chaos, and International Fund For...

A Benefit Concert For Our Girls Of Nigeria Hosted By Tyrese Gibson And Friends

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria last month by Boko Haram, an act that drew international condemnation. With the well being of the girls in mind...

Jimmy Carter?s Call to Action ? Women, Religion, Violence and Power

Former US President Jimmy Carter’s latest book is called Call to Action – Women, Religion, Violence and Power. In a CBC interview, he spoke about his view on wh...

Child Labour In India

This highly civilized, educated and marvelously scientific world of today says that child labour is simply a severe violation of basic human rights; but in spite of this re...

Two-stroke vehicles are the worst polluters

Six per cent of bikes and 70 per cent of three wheelers run on two-stroke engines in India Two-stroke scooters and mopeds are a significant source of vehicular pollution. A...

True Review: Lakshmi - A Story of Hope, Courage, Victory

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Cast: Monali Thakur, Nagesh Kukunoor, Shifaali Shah

Rating: 2.5 stars

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Seven unforgettable stories in the battle against sex trafficking, collected over two decades of my reporting

We think of slavery in terms of those sepia photographs in the history books, the horror that Abraham Lincoln helped end. That’s what I thought when I first reported ...