UN Chief Urges Climate Action At Earth Day Concert

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared 2015 a year for global action on climate, gender and development issues, warning revellers attending the 2015 edit...

Pregnant Women Advised To Get Flu Vaccination

Considering the contagious nature of influenza, doctors recommend that pregnant women get immunised against the disease. The Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Soci...

Apple: ‘We Don’t Want To Debate Climate Change. We Want To Stop It.’

Apple is continuing to take a strong stance against climate change, writing in its newly released 2015 Environmental Responsibility Report, "We don?t want to debate climate...

Avril Lavigne Debuts Song For Special Olympics

The song is exclusively available today, April 16, on iTunes 100 days before the start of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games, which will be the world’s largest spo...

Nikhil Seth: A New Vision For Sustainable Development

In his more than two decades with the United Nations, Nikhil Seth has played a pivotal role in the development of first the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and now the...

Meryl Streep Funds Lab for Women Screenwriters Over 40

Meryl Streep has funded a screenwriters lab for women writers over 40, to be run by New York Women in Film and Television and IRIS, a collective of women filmmakers.
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Doing much with little

Despite limited resources and political instability, Nepal is doing well on health, social indicators.

Recently, on April 10, India?? The Hindu published an artic...

How dystopia hammers home the reality of climate change

It?s so easy not to really listen when the media (and science teachers) go on about climate change ? but the cause of most dystopian societies in books, from The Hunger Gam...

Time to tread sustainable development path

The idea of sustainable development is that raw capitalism is far too powerful for its own good. Global capitalism is a juggernaut, with the world economy now doubling in s...