Katherine Stapp

Two key targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the living standards of billions of people in developing countries are a reduction of child mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters.

Despite applaudable efforts by many to address pediatric Aids, lack of profit opportunities has stilted the development and availability of anti-retro-viral drugs designed for children.

Free speech proponents analyse the implications of recent raids on websites belonging to an independent news provider.

Many male non-citizens in the United States, Muslim and Arab men in particular, are still very angry and annoyed with the onerous screening procedures.

Anti-war protest in the US has taken a creative twist with artistes holding public readings of pacifist plays and poetry from modern and ancient times

While blood is shed in the name of religion and politics, a number of Americans are shedding theirs on canvasses in the name of peace and unity.

Revenge is last on the minds of the Sept 11 families. Although the events of that day, for them, are 'something from which we will never recover, not in one year, not in a lifetime', they feel that responding to violence with violence will only escalate the suffering, creating fresh wounds and breeding more resentment.