Society & Culture

This was the pre-apartheid education that we received when we were still at school. I was 13, 14 years of age at the time...

Climate change has affected the entire globe and the process is accelerating at a dangerous pace, while severely affecting the environment, causing glaciers to...

Differences in so-called multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups are consistently high across many countries, according to a new analysis released this Thursday.  The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), produced by the...

On October 13-15, Saint Petersburg will host the Third Eurasian Women's Forum primarily to review how women have performed in men's dominated world, identify...

Africa’s film and audiovisual industries could create over 20 million jobs and contribute $20 billion to the continent’s combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the UN cultural agency,...

Anthropocene has generated intense and ongoing debate over the last decade. From seemingly diverse disciplines such as climatology, geology, philosophy, and the visual arts,...

The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22 percent of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30...

“All Institutions, social or legal, have this in common with rivers, they do not flow easily backwards.” - C.H. Letour Neau The relationship...

For the UN Secretary-General, the benefits of making cities more environmentally friendly are “enormous”, and include reduced climate risk, more jobs, and better health and well-being.  “City leadership in using green materials and constructing energy-efficient,...

Carbon offset is currently starting to be promoted as the effort to offset our “sins” to our environment by doing good deeds. For instance...