Today, in recognition of International Women’s Day, UN Women has released a song inspired by a global call for Women’s rights and gender equality. As part of this year’s International Women’s Day which focuses on endin...
With both the World Cup and the Olympics looming, all eyes are turning towards Brazil. The Closing Ceremony of the London Olympics showed a bright, diverse, and eager city ready to welcome the world. The video below was created...
In todays society it is easy to choose pessimism over optimism. We are quick to judge and have become somewhat cynical, is it any wonder? News stories such as ‘for richer, but not poorer: recession blamed for rise in divo...
Around the end of last month, London’s Somerset House exhibited an array of photographs of young British servicemen and women who have sustained severe wounds in a collection by Bryan Adams, named “Wounded: The Lega...
“What I see is incredibly heroic people fighting for things — like democracy — that we take for granted every single day … All I am is a witness. My role is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless … To shin...
Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
A pale blue dot. In the grand scheme of the universe it may not seem very important, may not even hold any significance what so ever. Yet, that pale blue dot is home, and to us, it is important. We must not let that importance...
Today, more than 200 million women in developing countries who don’t want to get pregnant lack access to contraceptives. This is a life and death crisis. Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death ...
Despite some rather condescending commentary from Scott Gass this short clip provides some astonishing insights into the sheer size of the waters that cover the majority of our planet. The fact which most impressed me is that t...