At TEDxMiddlebury 2013 Polly Young-Eisendrath discusses the idea that we can control and manage our lives as counter to our happiness. After considering the ...

The Council presents a panel of agricultural experts talking about which technologies can be most effectively leveraged to make food chains more resilient, e...

Civil and political rights have a long tradition, but we are still on our way to realizing them for all members of society. In this lesson we will talk a lit...

The USAID Jordan Civil Society Program launched the CBO-Technical Assistance Program (CBO-TAP) aimed at "Internal Strengthening for Change". Implemented in c...

Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes us on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, an infamous "healer" in Brazil and others, sharing an important lesson: what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us, and our differences are not insurmountable.

Immigration - Global humanitarian reasons for current U.S. immigration are tested in this updated version of immigration author and journalist Roy Beck's col...

The first Syrian refugees has arrived in Azraq in Jordan, a a new refugee camp with the capacity to host up to 130,000 refugees from the war in Syria. NRC ha...

In this fascinating talk, founder of the award-winning EverydaySexismProject, Laura Bates, talks about her inspiring initiative. The EveryDaySexism is an eve...