Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments ha...

Constable Strikes Deal With Street Children To Study

Amidst the hustle and bustle characteristic of all railway stations in the country, one is likely to come across the forlorn faces of children, forced by circumstance to ea...

Gender Stereotypes Meets Frisbee

The Frisbee, a white blur, whirs across the sky, quivers in mid-air for a second and then descends. They run towards it—unmindful of the hot sand that coats their bar...

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

This Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants to Give Us All Robot Bodies

The Beam was designed as a video conferencing tool, allowing instant, face-to-face communication—kind of like FaceTime or Skype, except you can drive the screen on le...

The Genius Of Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda

India's western beachfront state Goa has been busy with celebrations to mark the 90th birth anniversary of one of the country's best-known cartoonists and illustrators, Mar...

How the Arab Spring Changed the Arab Screen and Why You Need to Start Paying Attention

"I took this video so that people know what really happened," whispers the protagonist of "Rags and Tatters," Ahmad Abdallah's urgent yet understated Egyptian drama set ami...

May 4 Marks First Maternal Mental Health Day To Increase Awareness Of Postpartum Mood Disorder

For the first time ever across the globe, May 4 will mark Maternal Mental Health Day in an effort to increase awareness of postpartum mood disorder (PPMD).

"Many ne...

Huge 'Dead Zones' Could Appear in the World's Oceans by 2030 Because of Climate Change

Man-made climate change is already cutting into oxygen levels in some parts of the world's oceans and could start producing new "dead zones" in some parts of the seas by 20...