Ben Affleck – People’s Choice Favorite Humanitarian

The People’s Choice Awards has announced that two-time Academy Award winner Ben Affleck will receive the third annual People’s Choice Award for Favorite Humanit...

Ben Affleck Honored For Charity Work

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has been honored for his charity work with a special prize from Save the Children.

The Argo star was among the guests o...

Akon To Headline Peace One Day Concert In Democratic Republic Of Congo

Peace One Day will make history on September 21 by holding a concert at Goma International Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This celebration will be headl...

Maternal Deaths Falling, But Not Fast Enough: WHO

“There is still one woman dying every one and a half to two minutes somewhere in the world … Because she is trying to give life,” said Marleen Temmerman,...

Omega School Represents India at UN Human Rights Conference

Fifty two Class 11 students of Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Kolapakkam, participated in a human rights video conference on March 3.

Omega was the onl...

UN teams with ‘Revolution’ TV show to highlight real challenges of a world without power

The fictional concept at the heart of the television series ‘Revolution’ – which picks up 15 years after the start of a worldwide blackout – is the ...

UCLA Launches Global Media Center For Social Impact

The Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA has established an innovative new center to
increase awareness of important health issues and improve the well-being of pe...

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

Storytelling as a strong medicine

An article by Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington recently appeared in an issue of Monthly Developments Magazine on on how entertainment ha...