WATCH: The world’s gender gaps in 2013
The 2013 World gender gap index, produced by the World Economic Forum, reveals gender inequalities across the world. Out of 136 countries Iceland has received the highest ranking in terms of having the smallest gender gap, fol...
WATCH: Introducing the flesh eating “zombie” drug [WARNING: Graphic Footage]
Over the last year, two men in Duncan, Oklahoma have fallen victim to a kind of moonshine heroin called desomorphine, dubbed “krokodil” due to it’s horrific side-effects. It has also spread to other states, including Ariz...
Social Media: The End of the ‘Right to Privacy’?
The ‘right to privacy’ is, according to the liberal tradition of political philosophers such as John Stuart Mill one of the most important rights for man to be treated as a ‘free, autonomous, and valued individual’ and ...
WATCH: Coal mining – a profession for the poor
Every day people climb dangerously deep into the ground to support themselves as coal miners. The film Coal Boy tells the story of a boy in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India who was born into this fate. Most people can never...
Trick-or-Treat For A Better World This Halloween
We’re all familiar with Halloween. It’s a joyous day for kids – a day of fancy-dress costumes and all the candy you can eat. It’s the one day a year when kids are encouraged to take candy from strangers...
There Was Once A Wall Here…
On the water-dappled cobblestone path, which I stand upon and amidst the busy Berlin traffic, runs a narrow pebble strip. When I look to either side of this strip, life seems almost identical but our tour guide tells us otherwi...
