At first glance, there are no truer friends than Russia and Belarus. The two states are united by a common history and have strong ethnic and linguistic links. Russia has long subsidized her neighbor with cheap oil and gas, wh...
The year 2015 will be punctuated by a flurry of major international conferences. Three of these conferences are of great importance: the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will be held in June in...
The paparazzi photographer has become synonymous with the superficial world of celebrity. They make their living from selling snaps of stars eating, walking and hopefully looking less than polished. And unfortunately, we seem t...
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking has become “the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for or...
Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...
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...