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“There are men who fight one day and they are good, men who fight one year and they are better, men who fight many years and they are [...]
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At a recent dinner I bumped into two second generation Indians who had recently moved to India from Britain and the US. Ravi had managed to jump the hurdles and [...]
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Health care in the U.S. is treated more like a consumer good than a right for all people—regardless of age, race, class, or sex. In fact, the health care industry [...]
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In a country like Papua New Guinea (PNG), you don’t expect much from the government. If you do, you will be disappointed. You see, there is a problem when colonisation and Western [...]
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One question frequently voiced in Pakistan is why many educated women decide to sit back at home rather than working and participating in the country’s economic growth. Currently the literacy [...]
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I have a schizophrenic cousin. He's older than me, and as we grew up I had the sense there was something odd. There was a silence maintained on his condition, [...]
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Abstract: Sumak Kawsay is an indigenous concept that involves good living and being responsible with all beings that surround us, including nature. In Ecuador, this concept (which comes from the [...]
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For a long time, development indicators have been linked with two important elements: the first is health, and the second is environmental health. Both of these are related to the [...]
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Ever since the Middle Ages, disease and epidemics have set the tone for each century in ever recurring cycles of human suffering and medical progress. The AIDS epidemic, however, has [...]
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"Yugonostalgia." It's an expression that suggests many things at once. Generally, it refers to a feeling of longing for “the good old days” felt by citizens of those countries which [...]
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It was pretty delightful, the time we spent together was indescribable. Mr Welfare had really committed, promised me that he was there to support me describing himself as [...]
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Every single day, people die of epidemics and diseases. Every single day, people kill each other over differences in beliefs and cultures. Every single day, souls leave [...]
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Migrant workers' remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalisation. The money sent home by the migrant workers is another [...]
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Abstract: Colombian population has great expectations toward the State. Many sectors demand that its involvement in social issues is necessary to reduce poverty and inequality. Since a new [...]
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Abstract: Democracies in Latin America have been going back and forth, which rather than displaying them fragile, shows that the continent seeks its own ways when it comes to politics. Recent [...]
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Sometimes the relationship between the state and its citizens can be very complicated. But it's even more so when it's not clear who should be a [...]
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The beauty of childhood is its lack of expectations Photo credit: Powerhouse Museum Collection [...]
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In one of my previous articles, I presented the lives of street vendors in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. The pictures gave a graphic description of the [...]
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Abstract: For medicine, pregnancy is considered a disease and childbirth is part of a surgical protocol. The "clinicalization" of labor involves the intervention of a number of violent and invasive [...]
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What are the mechanisms that can be utilized in order to accurately assess whether a country abides by the values of good governance or drifts away from them? The questions above [...]
