A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

Female Directors Tackle Tough Issues

Gender equality remains a hot topic in the film fest world. The industry program of the Toronto fest will focus on the issue, with a series of high-profile speakers discuss...

Arctic Drilling: Bad Now, Worse For The Future

For the first time, Hillary Clinton has openly criticised President Obama in her bid to win the Democrat nomination. In a tweet last night , she condemned the president?s d...

Pregnant Women World-Wide Need Timely Access to Supplements

Over 32 million pregnant women around the world have anemia every year, a condition that limits the blood’s capacity to transport oxygen to the body’s cells. Th...

Haugesund Film Fest Celebrates French, Scandi Cinema

Roar Uthaug’s “The Wave,” Joachim Trier’s “Louder Than Bombs,” Kari Anne Moe’s “Rebels,” Stig Björkman’s &l...

Obama’s Clean Power Plan, And Lessons For India’s Own Climate Change Strategy

?The biggest, most important step we have ever taken to combat climate change?. ?That is how President Barack Obama described the Clean Power Plan he unveiled last week. Th...

Mass Media / Mass Effect

There is a scene in Inside Out where Joy and Sadness, Riley’s emotions along with Bing Bong, her imaginary friend are riding literally in her train of thought when th...

Hear The Poor Cry

A Very significant document has come out. It is a letter from Pope Francis addressed to everyone on this planet.

Pope Francis is head of the world’s largest r...