Vincent van Gogh, once said that “Conscience is a man’s compass.” The annual Edelman Trust Barometer suggestion the majority of global opinion leaders believe that business plays a role that no other institution can, in addressing social and environmental …

Last year, 60 million women around the world gave birth without professional care. More than half a million of them died. Think, for a moment, about that number. One woman. Every minute. Every day. They are women like Sharifa, just 23, from Afghanistan, …

Slippery hands. Tree bark. Tugboats. You won't find these in UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report being launched this week in Ottawa. The report tells us how the world is doing at reaching our Education for All goals. It says 72 million aren't in school. It …

In 1631, a beautiful empress, Mumtaz Mahal, died while giving birth to her 14th child. Overwhelmed by grief, her husband constructed a monument in her honour: the Taj Mahal, today one of the best-known buildings in the world. And yet, while the Taj …

When we think of war, we think of soldiers. But they’re not the only ones facing violence and death. Tragically, children and schools are too often on the front lines as well. No wonder, then, that half of all out-of-school children live in fragile or …