We’ve all moaned about getting up for school in the morning and faked stomach aches to get out of classes. What could be fun about being tested on things that just don’t matter to you or exposed for your lack of kno...
A coalition of concerned individuals and NGOs, Hong Kong for Elephants, rallied on October 4 in the city center calling on the Hong Kong Government to destroy its entire stockpile of 25 tonnes of confiscated ivory. The local...
October is Autism Awareness Month. And I think it’s important that we take a few minutes to think about that. Being a child can be difficult. Not one of us can say we had an entirely easy childhood, free of bullying and p...
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful practice involving the forcible removal of a girl’s genitals. In Africa alone, 30 million girls are at risk of being cut over the next decade, and up to 125 million women and girls ...
“Do we do enough? Difficult to say. I think we are doing the right thing.” Anders Zeijlon of the World Bank discusses the complex relationship between human rights and development from the perspectives of individuals, state...
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, no other country incarcerates a higher percentage of its population that the United States. The latest studies show that 716 people per 100,000 are incarcerated in Ameri...