There are a number of events planned as part of the ‘Year of Return’ including investment summits, leadership forums and cultural activities.

Older people are living longer and better than ever. Old age is nothing like what it used to be. Yet we are still trapped in the “age-stereotype paradox”. No matter how much it changes, society continues to attach the same stereotypes as ever to old age: illness, boredom, loneliness and [...]

The debut feature film by Marcelo Martinessi gives centre stage to a sexagenarian female couple who face up to the loss of their social status and their relationship in Paraguay, a country where the LGTBI population live in the [...]

Thirteen-year-old Anucha Tasako died last November in a boxing ring in a suburb of Bangkok. Like many Thai children, Tasako was a Muay Thai boxer, the favourite sport in a country where the debate on the protection of minors has only just [...]

“Newroz is proof that we exist. The festival is about Kurdish resistance and it reminds Kurds of our historical struggles.”

Activists from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, amongst others, are calling for an end to educating schoolchildren with texts that portray women as subordinate and LGBTI people as abnormal.