Sonam Kapoor accepts an award on behalf of Neerja Bhanot

Mumbai, November 21th, 2016: Emotions ran high at the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2016, as heroes Combatting Terrorism were honoured for t...

No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates The Global Maternal Health Challenge

DOT-MOM No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates the Global Maternal Health Challenge November 7, 2016 By Nancy Chong AMISOM-clinic Since the end of World War II, th...

Love Wins At Seattle South Asian Film Festival

The 11th annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival begins Friday, Oct. 14, with a special focus on Bangladeshi cinema.
The 10-day festival — whose theme is &ldquo...

Dispatches: Five of the Worst Places for Children

In some countries already devastated by war, the situation for children is only getting worse. A new UN report makes for grim reading, with one shattering statistic after a...

Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Mic...

Sesame Street Has A New Muppet In Afghanistan Who Promotes Girls Rights

Zari – whose name means “shimmering” in the Dari and Pashto languages – has been tasked with a mission to promote female empowerment. She made her d...

For Teens In Crisis The Next Text Could Be A Lifesaver

The message to the Crisis Text Line was answered by Aaron Amrich, a volunteer crisis counselor based in California. It was sent by a 19-year-old woman who wrote that she wa...

India Needs To “Save Its Daughters” Through Education And Gender Equality

Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a d...