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Environment

Citizens can help reduce India’s Carbon Footprint

According to a report produced to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it is told that India has managed to redu...

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Human Rights

Human Rights News Stories from 2018

From discrimination of LGBT to drugs – human rights issues and stories have never grown old. Every day, we hear issues related to human r...

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Sustainable Development

At COP24 in Poland, Countries come together to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement

The United Nations COP24 two-week climate change conference had gathered almost 200 parties in Katowice, Poland on t...

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Sustainable Development

Trillions of dollars lost in Corruption, says UN Chief

The UN says one trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually, while another 2.6 trillion are stolen, all due to corruption. 9 December, ma...

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Human Rights

UN Security Council meets to discuss Impact of War on People with Disabilities

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force in May 2008, and has so far been signed by 130 countries. It enshr...

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Environment

An Insurance Policy to Save Trees from Extinction

The world is losing plants at an unprecedented rate. Trees may have to be grown in test tubes in the future as one in five ...

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Human Rights

‘East West Street’: A Musical on Human Rights

The 92nd Street Y’s Tisch Centre for the Arts is all set to launch the North American premier of East West Street: A Song of...

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Human Rights

NE Activist honoured with the International Award for Human Rights

Binalakshmi Nepram is an author, humanitarian and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements wi...

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Thought Factory

Living in the Troll Age

Fifty years ago, the internet was used as a medium to communicate between two individuals.  Over time, it ...

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Environment

Governments to take more efforts to achieve Paris Climate Goal

On 12 December 2015 in Paris, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement to com...

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