Puspa Shahi, her husband, their daughter and son, born with Down syndrome, in June, live in Wales. This is Puspa's story about how her son has been a gift in her life.

In India we have 7.6 million young children in the age group of 0-6 years who live in a condition which is defined by the census of India as not fit for dwelling. The article is about how the urban governance system have excluded young children living in urban poverty and government do not invest on them as they do not have a right to vote.

Being gay is not a disease, being homophobic is. Most often the argument against homosexuality that is given is the "Un-naturalness" argument. What is this argument? What is its premise?

Thousands of foreigners come to Nepal to volunteer: most of them have good intentions, some of them do great things while a minor number do actually nothing. The issue is controversial and technically illegal, really? There are international organizations promoting development through volunteerism doing amazing job look at VSO, KOICA, JICA, PEACE Corps and UNV. what about the rest?