Forest Whitaker Honored For Work In Peacebuilding, Conflict-Resolution

Actor and United Nations agency special envoy Forest Whitaker has been celebrated as a leader in peacebuilding and conflict-resolution, empowering young people in communiti...

Women Use Art, Theater To Find Common Ground

In the days following the November election, some folks buried their heads, argued with others, or swore off social media and avoided communicating with the wider world. Bu...

Meet The Former Refugee Who Is Now Somalia’s First Female Presidential Candidate

When I call FadumoDayib, she tells me she's in the middle of a school run and driving her car. Straight away I notice her way with words; the way she pauses to choose the r...

'Affection' Is An Uplifting New Play About HIV

Six years ago, theatre director Ben Buratta started an unusual collective called Outbox Theatre. Consisting solely of LGBTQ performers, they hold workshops with youth group...

Programmers Aren't Writing Green Code Where It's Most Needed

Confession? I don't write green code. I mean, it might be green code just by coincidence, but I've never really thought too much about the relative energy consumption deman...

Women & The Sustainable Development Goals: Participant Voices

Every year thousands of activists from civil society organizations around the world come to New York to take part in the Commission on the Status of Women, the global inter...

15th River To River - Press Release And Invite For The Pre-Opening Exhibition.

Gabrielle Union Says Women Receive ‘Shame’ For Picking Careers Over Having Children.

One of Hollywood’s leading actresses says women are looked at differently for picking business over babies. “Bring It On” star Gabrielle Union o...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...