Dutch Government Taken To Court On Climate Change

Campaigners in the Netherlands are taking the government to court for allegedly failing to protect its citizens from climate change.
The class action lawsuit, involvin...

Raising Lady Gaga: Cynthia Germanotta On Why It’s Time For An Emotion Revolution

Cynthia Germanotta, president of Born This Way Foundation and mother of Lady Gaga, writes about raising her unique daughter and the Emotion Revolution, launched with Yale.<...

Six Decades Ago, US Celebrated First Successful Polio Vaccine

Sixty years ago, at about the time you??e reading this, church bells began to ring across the United States. Cars honked their horns. Reporters rushed to phones, and people...

WHEN MOVIES CAME HOME

It was in April 1995, that Indian television viewers experienced the thrill of their first 24 hour Hindi movie channel ? Zee Cinema. The channel indulged the viewers, who t...

How Foundations Like Ronnie Screwvala's Swades Are Helping Entrepreneurs Emerge From Rural India

For Ronnie Screwvala this was an unusual success story. At a community centre in Khamgaon, a village 166 km south of Mumbai, he engaged a group of 25 rural women, all dress...

Katie Couric Replaces Brian Williams As Host Of Charity Gala

Tapped to host the annual gala of the Robin Hood Foundation, a leading poverty-fighting charity in New York, is Katie Couric, a new member of the board that also includes H...

Huma Qureshi Is Willing To Sell Her Old Phone Online For A Good Cause.

Actress Huma Qureshi is willing to sell her old phone online for a good cause.

“Time to move on.. #SamsungEdge .. Someone suggested to sell my old phone onlin...

Rights-Based Maternity Care Must Become A Global Priority

It has become all too clear lately that to be pregnant, to be in labor, or to birth a child is to put oneself at the mercy of larger powers—powers that sometimes seem...

Defeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed America

Tens of thousands of Americans — in the first half of the 20th century — were stricken by poliomyelitis. Polio, as it’s known, is a disease that attacks t...