The Recycling Reflex

What if there were something that could create 1.5 million new jobs, reduce carbon emissions equal to taking 50 million cars off the road, cut dependence on foreign oil, in...

Amazing Mud Paintings On School Walls In Bihar

Every year, in the remote village of Sujata in one of India’s poorest states Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. Artists from ...

Improving The Quality Of Skills Training: What The Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Can Teach Us

The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) through its eight pilots taught us a great deal about how to make skills training more female-friendly and support young women's trans...

Freida Pinto Turns Producer For Women Empowerment Shows And Films

Freida Pinto is a renowned social activist who essentially works towards the development of women and the actress has taken yet another step in this direction. Freida along...

Malnutrition, Alcoholism In Tribal Madhya Pradesh Get Baneebai Cure

At first glance, her profile hardly looks newsworthy — a young woman of the poor Bhilala tribe in Madhya Pradesh; a high school dropout.But BaneebaiNingwal has the re...

Epix’s ‘The 4%: Film’s Gender Problem’ Docu-Series To Debut On Intl. Women’s Day – Sundance

Based on research conducted by USC Annenberg Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative, The 4% is broken up into 6-short documentaries, each about five minutes long, th...

VEER & NCPEDP Celebrate World Disability Day With ‘Walk To Freedom’

How Far Have Women's Rights Advanced In The Past 20 Years?

Extreme poverty won’t end until gender inequality ends. That’s the unavoidable reality. The continued oppression of women around the world generates t...

Poor Healthcare Could Stunt India’s Growth

I come from a place in India where many people prefer to visit a traditional healer or a god-man when they fall ill. You may argue that people are uneducated or ignorant, b...