UN Security Council meets to discuss Impact of War on People with Disabilities

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force in May 2008, and has so far been signed by 130 countries. It enshr...

Will Life ever return to Normal for these Families displaced by War in Yemen?

Yemen is the world’s single largest humanitarian crisis. Hunger is constant. The besieged port city of Hodeida in Yemen has bec...

UN’s Key Priorities to resolve Hunger this World Food Day

World Food Day is celebrated around the world every year on 16 October in honour of the date of the founding of...

Public Restrooms – Can they be an Arbiter of Gender?

Public restrooms become a battleground for the Transgender. The familiar outline of Male and Female that mark g...

Physically Challenged but Mentally Strong

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.  - Scott Hamilton

When you hear the term &ls...

Need for a New Social Contract to Guard the Rising Inequality

Mankind has always been afraid of where its talent for innovation might lead. John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 of widespread unemployment ari...

Kerala Floods: Shame how we Indians politicised a National Calamity and Tragedy

As weeks of wild weather smashed into the north-western Australian coast in February 2018, and record summer ra...

This Mother’s Day Help the Moms in Crisis

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. You would probably know about it, thanks to the zillion social media posts that w...

Aamir Khan’s Paani Foundation to make Maharashtra Drought-Free

Several villages in drought-prone districts like Aurangabad, Sangli, Satara, Dhule, and Jalna have been facing ...