Volunteering: selfless or smart? (Education)
by Samantha
Volunteer work is often seen as a selfless activity. What people sometimes don’t realize is just how important volunteer work is and how helpful it can be, not only to the communities/ individuals...

Uranium mining in Meghalaya (Environment)
by jeffrey kharsyntiew, India
Picture, Radiation Warning symbol , in the public domain. Dear all, I think all of us know about uranium and its consequences. The real question is, “Are we really concerned about this...

Pay for emissions: the developed world's responsibility (Environment)
by Dr.N.Radha krishna, India
Picture, Wind power, by Maggie Chou , licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License . America and other developed countries damage the environment with huge emissions before...

Peaceful protests turn deadly in the Peruvian Amazon (Environment)
by Samantha, Peru
(Photo from the AIDESEP website ) How many know of the struggles of those in the jungles of Peru? How many must die before the world will listen? Why did anyone have to die? Why wasn’t their...

The Gurkha odyssey
by L.B.Tapmaden, Nepal
( Picture: Gurkhas training with their khukris ) Professor Sir Ralph Turner, MC, who served with the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles in the First World War, wrote an epitaph for the...

Abstain from meat... let’s go vegetarian! (Environment)
by Mike, Uganda
( Face to Face : picture by Shiv Mogali ) “Animal what?” very many people in Kampala would ask if you put it to them that animals too have rights. “Which rights?” they would quip, but they...

Animal rights and human rights: exploring the links (Environment)
by Charlotte, Canada
( Wild (Portrait of Ruby, the artist's dog) : picture by Carey Charles ) I've been a vegetarian for the better part of ten years now, and for someone who is only 20, that is a long time indeed....

Will an Obama victory alter the idiosyncratic perception of the black race? (Cultural Diversity)
by Pedus, United States
The year 2008 would, no doubt, go down in the annals of American history as a monumental year politically and economically, but more importantly black history would not be complete without citing...

Fair Trade- from the jungles of Latin America to the stores of North America (Human Rights)
by Samantha
I walked through the jungle that day in June, looking at Freddy’s farm and all it contained. When he proudly showed me his coffee plants, I was unaware that he was one of the few organic certified...

Phones against AIDS (Health)
by Kate Jongbloed
You and I might use text messaging to remind our roommate to pick up toilet paper on the way home from work, but around sub-Saharan Africa, mobile phones are taking on a new role as tools against...