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Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send...

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New York Makes History, With Tampons And Pads

New York City made history today with passage of the nation’s first legislative package to ensure access to menstrual products in public schools, shelters and correct...

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Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After h...

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JIO MAMI Film Club With STAR's Second Event Is The Indian Premiere Of ‘Brahman Naman’, A Film By Q, On June 27th At 9pm, PVR ICON

Mumbai, June, 2016: As a part of its year round activities, the Jio MAMI Film Club with Star announces their second event-The Indian Premiere of Q’s Brahman Naman. Af...

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Can India Benefit From A Human Rights Framework For Business?

On 26 June 2014, the government made a commitment at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), when it voted in favour of a resolution to establish an open-ended int...

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Why Haven't We Explored The Ocean Like Outer Space?

Only five percent of the seafloor has been topographically imaged, which leaves 65 percent of the entire planet (not counting land masses) relatively unknown. Yet, since th...

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Tangled, Toronto’s First Accessible Art Gallery For Disabled Artists, Is Bringing The Outsiders In

Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed in the 1970s without the artist’s name, who was rarely e...

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Filipinos Shine At Soho International Film Festival

In between staging comedy shows in New York a few days ago, I was invited to the opening night of the prestigious Soho International Film Festival (SIFF) at Village East Ci...

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Gillian Anderson Speaks For Orcas At Seaworld Annual Meeting

X-Files star Gillian Anderson spoke up for orcas during SeaWorld’s online annual meeting this week. She will submited a question on behalf of PETA — which owns ...

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Health Ministry's Own Survey Projects Bleak Picture

A far from healthy picture emerges of India when one carefully analyses data on country's health that was released by the
government. While there have been gains in th...

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