Stopping statelessness?
Yolanda Alcino is stateless. She has no health insurance, can’t report domestic abuse and her children are not registered as being born. She’s not alone. An estimated 10-12 million people globally face a similar pl...
Singapore’s First Riot In 40 Years
A riot erupted in central Singapore on Sunday December 8th, after an Indian worker was killed in a bus accident. Hundreds of rioters attacked 16 police cars and burned down an ambulance in the area called Little India. It wa...
Skin Lightening: 50 Shades of Chagrin
On September the 15th, 24 Year Old Nina Davaluri became the first winner from an Indian background to win the Miss America pageant. Amidst the cheers of adulation and the small but obnoxious stream of racist remarks directe...
Syrian Children Pay the Steep Price of War
During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war. The Children’s Rights Portal categorizes child war victims as civilian victims, soldiers, displaced, orphans, wo...
Hooked on the War on Drugs
For thirty years, the global cocaine empire was controlled from the heart of Colombia’s streets. Led by the so-called “Kings of Cocaine”, the most notorious drug cartels in history dominated every level of the country’s...
Floyd Mayweather: Deeper than the money
For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the number 48 symbolises his solidified status as the best fighter of his generation. For Manny Pacquiao, perhaps it’s a fatalistic sign to choose an ironically simpler path into politics. But person...
