Speaking of the widespread sanitation crisis, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson was quick to produce staggering numbers: of the world’s seven billion people, about six billion have mobile phones but only about 4.5 billion have access to toilets.   Indian children use a microfinanced facility in their backyard in a Bhubaneswar slum. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS “And that leaves about 2.5 …

Brother Khurram Murad was born in Bhopal, India, in 1932, and he migrated to Pakistan in 1948. Khurram Murad studied civil engineering at the University of Karachi (B.E. 1952), securing 1st place in the University, and went on to study in the University of Minnesota (USA) (MSc. 1958). He worked as a leading consulting engineer in Karachi, Dhaka, Tehran and …

About 500 people have marched through the centre of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, protesting against a recent wave of ethnic hatred which has seen hardline Buddhists targeting the Muslim minority, the BBC’s Charles Haviland reports. A movement to show that moderates are strong & united against hate and are committed to promote understanding about the strengths of diversity & …

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