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Women’s rights and customary wrongs
By Tzili Mor - Aug 15, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 15, 2015 22:52
One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is the gap between their legal rights and their ability as individuals to c ...
Francis of the forest
By Bruce Babbitt - Aug 13, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 13, 2015 22:59
When Pope Francis visited Latin America in July, he made an impassioned plea for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and the people who ...
Fat’s heavy burden
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram - Aug 12, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 12, 2015 23:03
Today, about 2.1 billion people, or almost 30 per cent of the world’s population, are regarded as overweight (defined as a body mass index, ...
A climate Apollo programme
By Gus O’Donnell - Aug 10, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 10, 2015 23:04
In 1961, when the United States was faced with the threat of falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race, president John F. ...
Digital wrong turn
By Christopher Engman - Aug 10, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 10, 2015 23:02
When it comes to crafting good digital policy, Europe has failed its first big test.In May, the European Commission announced that it would ...
No agnostics in climate foxhole
By John Hewson - Aug 05, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 05, 2015 23:04
On a recent 14.5-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, I had time to read the columnist Charles Krauthammer’s collection of essays, Things ...
Rio 2016 — the greatest sport festivity in the heart of Brazil
By Dilma Roussef - Aug 04, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 04, 2015 22:53
We are still one year away from it, but Brazil’s heart is already beating faster.The generous Brazilian heart leaps up when confronted with ...
China’s BRICS balancing act
By Zhao Minghao - Aug 02, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 02, 2015 23:03
As much of the world focuses on Greece’s travails, the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have been working ...
What energy shortage?
By Jostein Eikeland - Aug 02, 2015 - Last updated at Aug 02, 2015 23:01
If we were able to capture and use the energy from just two minutes of sunlight falling on the Earth, it would be enough to fuel our cars, l ...
The tragedy of the climate commons
By Petros Sekeris - Jul 26, 2015 - Last updated at Jul 26, 2015 23:11
By now, the danger from climate change and other forms of environmental degradation is so evident that it seems crazy to ignore it.And yet, ...

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