By Sarah Mills

Every year hundreds of children go missing from India’s state-run care homes and are condemned to re-trafficking and abuse, found a recent Freedom of Information request ordered by local anti-trafficking organisation OdanadiSeva Trust.

By Abhirup Bhunia

Legislators across the developed world are hurriedly stringing together laws to tighten control on borders to prevent escalating immigration, an international phenomenon that is only to be anticipated in a world that refuses to retreat from the globalization fiesta. Antipathy towards immigrants is a shared trait among the far right parties of Europe, America and Australia. But cutting back global migration is tantamount to shortsightedness. The future in respect of migration is anybody’s guess, but it is certainly reckless to overlook the mutual benefits that liberalized borders accrue to humanity. 

By Paul Woodward

When terrorism has a white face it invariably gets marginalized in the popular narrative. The lone wolf, the outsider, the sociopath — in many cases these portraits of misanthropic, isolated individuals who turn to violence are quite accurate.

By staff reporter 

Underlining the need for a collaborative effort to manage population, speakers at a programme on World Population Day have said that lack of support from healthcare providers, reluctance to reach out directly to rural communities and misconceptions about birth control methods are major reasons for failure of family planning initiatives in Pakistan where abortion, quite often in unsafe conditions, is increasingly being used as a substitute for contraception.