It speaks to the values of our society when we can't protect our most vulnerable citizens - our children.

Twenty years ago today, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Since then, it has been ratified by 193 countries including every U.N. Member...

Commemorating a historic event is one thing - actually fixing its legacy is another.

Today, the world's attention is on the Berlin Wall. Twenty years ago, this divisive symbol fell marking the end of the Cold War. But, it didn't tear down the legacy - that being the over 23,000...

Headlines rarely do a story justice - especially when it comes to the words "Drought in Africa".

They don't capture the feel of the crumbled, arid soil that cannot nourish even a subsistence crop. They don't explain how parched husks of corn can be peeled back to reveal the...

To find a bank still readily giving loans during the financial crisis, you need only look as far as a Delhi train station.

There you'll find a child sitting at a ramshackle post. Despite his unkempt appearance, he's branch manager. Expertly trained by the people at Butterflies, a Delhi-based...

Imagine being admitted to a hospital in a foreign country.

You're alone as doctors explain your condition in another language. On top of that, in just a matter of hours, you'll be completely responsible for a new life.

In one of Vancouver's most multicultural communities, this is exactly...

It's been nearly 35 years since bombs were dropped in the Vietnam War. Last month, Pham Quy Tuan became one of the latest casualties.

Tuan, 42, is married with two children. Few jobs are available in the poverty-stricken Quang Tri Province, the war's former demilitarized zone. To keep his...

Laura Levine's four-year-old is learning to brush her teeth everyday and how to protect herself from predatory lenders.

Preschool might seem a bit early to start thinking about mortgages. But, even though she doesn't really understand the complexities of gingivitis or subprime, the habits her mother is instilling will...

A Zimbabwean OB/GYN described to Scott Wittet the smell of a local hospital's cancer ward.

The doctor said he took his interns to visit patients lucky enough to receive treatment or palliative care. As they approached one wing, they were hit by an intense stench. It was overpowering. Many...

Suwicha Thakor is a family man.

The 37-year-old shares a crowded home in Nakhon Phanom in north-eastern Thailand with his wife, three children and dependent father.

An engineer by trade, Thakor sent his oldest child, a boy of 16 named Kanchai, to a bilingual school in Bangkok. The...

If you haven't heard the buzz, you could be missing out.

Mark Winston, a professor at Simon Fraser University heard it. So did Eugenio Angles, a farmer in Alto Beni, Bolivia.

Unfortunately, the buzz seems to be dying down. That's because its source is dying out. And, the eerie...

The tiny Motony community in Eastern Kenya knew their educational get-together on health would be popular.

They didn't expect 1,500 people popular.

The crowd consisted of men, women and children. They moved among the make-shift educational stations under the acacia trees and among the savannah grass.

As...

The flagmen on Ecuador's banana plantations have one of the worst jobs.

Their task is nothing short of dangerous. "Uniforms" consist of jeans and t-shirts. Then, they make their way to the fields and guide the crop-spraying planes to the correct spot.

In an effort to bring North...

No topic stirs nationalist fervor like beer.

The Irish have Guinness. Australia has Foster's. Right here in Canada, Molson struck gold when Joe Canadian proclaimed that not only is the beaver a noble creature, it's pronounced "zed;" not "zee" - "zed."

We enjoy the "I Am Canadian" rant...

There's not much new about the genocide in Darfur.

For six years now, the conflict has uprooted over 2 million people. The United Nations estimates about 300,000 have died while thousands of women have been raped.

That fact so little is changing makes the situation tragic. It's also...

In yoga, the warrior pose represents the spiritual strength of the person performing the move.

As Lucy Cimini slowly leads her students into the posture at the Central Mass Yoga Institute, it takes on new meaning.

The men standing firm-footed with their arms outstretched are not your typical...

Glorius Kyarihunda was murdered by her husband at 25-years-old.

The man hacked his wife of 10 years to death with a machete in Western Uganda when she returned home to retrieve her belongings.

Days earlier, Glorius' husband blamed her for his positive HIV test.

According to the...

Recessions and insurgencies certainly capture headlines. Slow-moving arms races - not so much.

While the global financial crisis fills the news cycle and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan visualize broadcasts, these events overshadow the threat of a six-nation arms race in Northeast Asia.

The players are the...

Everyone agrees that there are pirates off the coast of Somalia. Actually identifying them is tougher.

To the western media and commercial shippers, the men riding the outboard motors equipped with AK-47s are the pirates. Their speed - it takes on average eight minutes to board a ship -...

The last thing we expected from Frank Meeink was a new appreciation for hockey.

Movie buffs may know him as Derek Vinyard, Edward Norton's neo-Nazi character in American History X. The 1998 film was loosely based on Meeink's life.

Loosely, Meeink told us at the Reconciliation Forum in...

This Father's Day we want to give a shout-out to the Aka people.

The dads who make up this hunter-gatherer tribe from southwestern Central African Republic and northern Congo are officially the best fathers in the world. It's quite the honour - one bestowed by Fathers Direct, a UK...