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Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

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Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Microsoft Gives Fresh ‘Umeedein’ For Empowering Girls

Female education has been getting increasing attention from all – the government, parents, and the administration; however, when it comes to girls playing sport, that...

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Bill And Melinda Gates To Be Honored By Helen Keller International

Helen Keller International, a leading global nonprofit dedicated to fighting the causes and consequences of preventable blindness and malnutrition, will celebrate its Cente...

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Out With The Old…?

Our society has been in a constant flux for change. There is a greater adaptation afoot in a nation like India because of its many contradictions, complexities and voices. ...

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Water Now Gathers Huge Support For UN World Water Day

Water Now, a Cause Brand created by renowned philanthropic producer David Clark and in partnership with UN-Water’s World Water Day, today announced the overall social...

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Freida Pinto exclusive column on women empowerment

Freida Pinto has written an exclusive column about ‘India’s Daughter’ her take on the ban along with the need for uplifting and empowering women in today&...

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The Empowering Advice Women In Hollywood Would Give Girls

“What advice would you give to the young girls of the world?” That’s the question BuzzFeed posed to 11 famous women on the Oscars’ red carpet on Feb...

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Health literacy key to improving health outcomes in South East Asia

The South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with Deakin University, has today (10 February) launched a set of health literacy...

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