India is hosting the world’s biggest democratic elections this year, with nearly 100 million newly eligible voters since the last election and about 814.5 million voters in total. India is also filled with a lot of people...
When Bossa Nova, one of the most famous Brazilian music genres, was born, it mainly expressed the beauty and the uniqueness of Brazil. Today, Bossa Nova has also proved to be a subtle tool to express dissatisfaction towards the...
Glenn Ford spent almost 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit; on Tuesday 11th he was exonerated, thus becoming one of the longest serving death row inmates to be freed in the United States. The news comes as a shoc...
The 15th of March will mark the 3rd anniversary of the start of the bloody Syrian conflict where more than 10,000 children have been killed, 1 million forced to seek asylum in neighbouring countries and a further 3 million inte...
In December 2010 the Arab Spring began spreading across North Africa and Middle East. The autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been overthrown. In Syria the civil uprising began in January 2011 when police assaulte...
Here is a short film that I made about the work of Hot Sun Foundation, an organization based in Kibera Nairobi, the largest slum in Africa. Hot Sun Foundation draws on the imagination, creativity and passion of young people fro...
When you think about nuclear weapons, what is the first thought that comes to your mind? Destructiveness? Maybe, death? For me at least, power, danger, and control are probably the first three words I associate with nuclear w...
In a country like Uganda, where 40% of all businesses are owned by women but 93% of the credit for all businesses goes to men, an organisation like the Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL) is an unusual initi...
For years, tensions between India and Pakistan have remained hostile. It seems that the people of both countries have entirely erased from their memories a time when they were one – no boundaries, no conflicts, just one c...