Deploying midwives in poor nations could avert millions of maternal and newborn deaths

Researchers have said that a small increase in number of skilled birth attendants in the world’s poorest nations could save the lives of a substantial number of women...

Stars Support UNHCR's World Refugee Day Message

More than 40 high profile UNHCR supporters rallied over the past week to spread awareness around the globe about World Refugee Day and the plight of the forcibly displaced....

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food Sky is the limit for those who want to grow their own food, both literally and metaph...

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

Gavin DeGraw Helps Launch Bedside Performance Program At City Of Hope

Cancer patients at City of Hope were surprised with an intimate performance by Grammy-nominated musician and songwriter Gavin DeGraw as charity organization Musicians on Ca...

Can Social Accountability Help Ensure Rights and Better Participation in Maternal Health Services?

Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that creates a...

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that environmental literature has become ma...

Jimmy Page And Black Sabbath To Be Honored At O2 Silver Clef Awards

Jimmy Page will be awarded the O2 Silver Clef Award at the upcoming Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards on Friday 4th July at the London Hilton.Founding member of British...

United Technologies and SOS Children’s Villages announce ‘Project Vidya’ Initiative to support education of 800 children in SOS Villages across 9 cities in India

United Technologies and SOS Children’s Villages announce ‘Project Vidya’

Initiative to support education of 800children in SOS Villages across 9 c...