Should We Look Beyond 'Jobs' To 'Livelihoods' This World Water Day?

With water resources dwindling at a rapid rate globally and its predicted serious impacts on economies and livelihoods, World Water Day 2016 celebrated every year on March ...

Earth Hour: What Is It And Why Is It So Important?

On Saturday night, cities across the world will go dark as the globe comes together in the fight against climate change.
The voluntary power cut marks Earth Hour, a gr...

World Health Day 2015: Global view of food safety

Everyone, everywhere needs safe food, free from microbes, viruses and chemicals. But globalization means the food you are eating today may have come from the other side of ...

Kailash Satyarthi -- The Sustainable Elimination of Child Labour: a global challenge - III GCCL

USC Annenberg Researcher Thoughts

Here’s a great video interview with the USC Annenberg students involved in the Institute’s new Gender Bias Without Borders Global Gender in Film study.

Global Health in Lights: Hollywood, Health & Society in Washington, D.C. - Part 1

Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program, moderated this discussion which brought top TV producers, writers...

A Glimpse Inside Celebrity Charities And Fundraising Events

It’s refreshing to see celebrities get glammed up for more than just a red carpet walk or to accept an award. Many stars also go big for the greater good of society. ...

10 Women Who Are Disrupting Global Health And Tech

There’s something about the rising humidity, the pre-dawn birdsong, the flowers we forgot we planted. It’s a disruptive, yet hopeful feeling—which makes i...

One Of The Biggest Myths About Beating Climate Change Has Just Been Busted

For the second straight year, the global economy has grown without a corresponding rise in emissions tied to climate change, reversing an almost two-century-old trend and g...