Reforms urged to tackle violence against women in India
The Lancet April 27, 2013 India’s medical system needs to be more responsive to the needs of women who have been victims of interpersonal violence, say experts and campaigners. Amy […]
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The icddr,b—saving lives in Bangladesh and beyond
The Lancet April 20, 2013 On a hot spring afternoon in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an autorickshaw buzzes down the driveway to the hospital at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, […]
Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 DHAKA, Bangladesh — At the factories of DBL Group, one of the largest Bangladeshi textile and garment makers, tons of fluffy imported cotton are […]
Jack Reece helps a Noah’s Ark of animals in India
Christian Science Monitor March 8, 2013 From elephants to buffaloes, dogs to donkeys, Help in Suffering (HIS), a nonprofit animal welfare group in Jaipur, India, treats animals large and small […]
No Heights Too Steep
Ms. Magazine February 2013 The First Woman to Climb Everest is Now an Activist DURING HER ASCENT OF Mount Everest in 1975, Junko Tabei narrowly avoided disaster. The Japanese mountaineer was buried in an […]
Market for Bear Bile Threatens Asian Population
New York Times.com January 28, 2013 The six bears that arrived this month at Animals Asia, an animal rescue center in China, had the grisly symptoms of inhumane bile milking. Greenish bile […]
After a Fatal Rape, Paths to Change
New York Times Weekly January 24, 2013 NEW DELHI — Crowds converged in Delhi last month to protest the gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student that shocked […]
Jeeping Up on India’s Wild Lions
Wall Street Journal January 4, 2013 A fast and fairly furry safari that’s far from Africa—and in Gir Forest National Park, home to remaining members of the majestic, tassel-tailed Asiatic […]
A Jewelry Maker Who Goes Far Beyond Metal
International Herald Tribune December 7, 2012 CHICAGO — In 1967, while she was a student at the University of Iowa, Kiff Slemmons and her boyfriend, now her husband, drove to […]
Heaven, closer to earth
Economist, Prospero October 12, 2012 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT is best known as a revolutionary American architect. A hallmark of his work is sensitivity to the natural environment—Fallingwater, the house he […]
