I put together this video about my medical mission trip with International Medical Relief to the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. It was another incredible trip!

One day while walking around Shinjuku, a major hub for government and business in Tokyo, Japan, I noticed a shelter built by a homeless man. It looked semi-permanent, but more importantly, had solar panels on it. I thought this was very different than the homeless I encountered in my former city of Vancouver, Canada, so I started to investigate homelessness in Japan.

In times of an emergency or crisis situation, social media offers some of the fastest and most effective tools for getting critical life-saving information to the people. Those affected seek help on social media while many others connect in virtual space to organise relief and take it to the right place. Twitter India’s Public Policy Head Mahima Kaul tells New Delhi blog how these virtual communities are playing a significant role

The 6th annual National Animal Rights Day at Beaches Park Toronto. We held a requiem for these voiceless victims whose bodies are normally hidden from sight,...

We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one ...

The Education and Social Justice Project is part of the Doyle Engaging Difference Pogram. For more information, please visit: http://berkleycenter.georgetown...

Julia Hardy tells us how she uses humour to combat endemic online sexism, and explains how the actions of this small percentage of men not only adversely aff...

The humanitarian system is simply not doing a good job in the eyes of the people it aims to help. Christina Bennett, Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, lays out a three-point proposal for radical change to create a humanitarian system that is fit to respond to the challenges of both today and tomorrow.