Greenpeace Temporarily Blockades A Shell Vessel, As The Oil Major Begins Drilling In The Arctic.

The icebreaker that's key to Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic is heading back north after authorities broke a dramatic blockade on Friday by environmentalists i...

Angelina Jolie To Direct An Unflinching Portrayal Of War Through The Eyes Of A Child.

Angelina Jolie Pitt will direct an adaptation of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, a harrowing and poignant memoir from Cambodian author and hu...

Thousands Of Animals Have Been Saved In Nepal As Mass Slaughter Is Cancelled

A festival in Nepal celebrating the world’s largest animal sacrifice was canceled on Tuesday in a landmark victory for activists. The Gadhimai Temple Trust said the e...

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

Of A Biased Media, Yakub Memon And Baby Crows!

So as I walked into the elevator that would take me to my apartment on the 7th floor after work last evening, in walked with me a lady well over 75 years of age.

I ...

Malala Opens School For Girl Refugees

Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has marked her 18th birthday with a renewed commitment to refugees and education by inaugurating a school for more...

Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by a...

Richard Curtis And Adrian Grenier To Speak At Social Good Summit

The annual Social Good Summit, a unique convening of world leaders, new media and technology experts, grassroots activists and voices from around the world, today announced...

Hague Climate Change Judgement Could Inspire A Global Civil Movement

“You have been negotiating all my life”, cried out 21-year-old Anjali Appadurai from the lectern of a UN climate change conference four years ago. The activist,...