Tortured, Killed and Chained: International Trade & Tourism May Cause Extinction of Elephants Within...
By Jameela Freitas
The total number of elephants is rapidly decreasing globally as elephants are continued to be poached for ivory, and tortured and killed for tourism and entertainment.
Another Olympic Winner: Rio’s Favela Residents
By Aubrilyn Reeder
Improving the quality of life in slums, which count for 25% of the world’s urban population, is critical for improving the social, economic, and environmental happiness for cities.
Business in Box: A social Innovation to Take SDGs to Every Household
By Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema & Majida Malik
Named “business-in-box” (BiB), a project in rural Pakistan aims to reduce maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate by increasing awareness and contraceptive prevalence rate.
Lecturio to Provide Free E-Learning Resources to Improve Global Health
Lecturio, a German tech company, has announced the launch of MEDI, a new Medical Education Development Initiative that aims to support medical capacity building in the developing world.
Technology Camp For Young Girls In Rwanda
Created by Peace Corps Volunteers in 2013, TechKobwa brings together Rwandan ICT professionals and expert trainers from IBM and Michigan State University to conduct lessons in computer science, electronics, and other STEM-related topics.
Street Games Soothe Woes of Zimbabwe´s Jobless Youths
By Ray Mwareya
Zimbabwe's idle youths, bending under a reality of 80% joblessness, and an economy stuffed by $9, 9 billion in external debt, are now hooked to playing or owning a “snooker” table.
Bangladesh’s Remarkable Rise from Poverty: A Lesson for the Developing World
By Tahseen Ali
Bangladesh’s overall rate of poverty currently is 24 percent, down from 40 percent a decade ago and the country is on track to being designated a middle-income country in only five years.
Philippines: Hungry Farmers Asking Food Get Bullets
By Rey Ty
Government in the Philippines has responded with bullets when thousands of peasant protesters demanded for food aid and hunger relief.
Kabul’s Dark Nights and the Dream of a New Silk Route
By Sayed Jalal
With the deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan, how feasible the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline project will be?
The Gendered Internet: Looking at Platforms in India
By Shruti Saxena
In its earliest stages the Internet was hailed as a great equalizer, a portent of a new world of information and freedom of access. Reality has been slightly different. Like all other spaces, the Internet too is gendered.
