Arwen Armbrecht is a freelance writer and social media producer.
On 6 August 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The United States would drop a second bomb on another Japanese city, Nagasaki, three days later. At that t...
Spain is the country most supportive of transgender rights, according to a poll published in December 2016. The survey was conducted as a collaboration between BuzzFeed News, polling firm...
Western Europe continues to lead the way in transgender rights, according to the Trans Rights Europe Map & Index 2016. The annual index and map, published in collaboration with the In...
Malta has sprung to the top spot of ILGA’s Rainbow Map 2016 - an overview of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI). The island nation, which ...
UNAIDS, the United Nations branch dedicated to fighting HIV, has set a goal that by 2030, 90% of those infected with HIV will know they carry the virus. That will be a tall order: it's es...
The average amount of waste generated per person in the European Union was 475 kg in 2014. The good news is that nearly 100% of that waste was treated to ensure it has the least possible ...
Sub-Saharan Africa's positive economic outlook has come under pressure from changes in the global economy. The continent's overall growth is expected to remain just below 5% in 2016. Neve...
The BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival opened yesterday, its thirtieth edition. The festival runs from 16 to 27 March, showing both new and classic LGBT films from around the world. For...
Today, the conversation about LGBT rights has come to include many aspects affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. In the 18th century, however, the question was s...
What would you read on a voyage to the Antarctic? Over a hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton crammed his on-board bookshelf with all kinds of books to accompany him on an ill-fated j...
Did you know that Brazil was the first country to outlaw conversion therapy? Or that in Turkmenistan, homosexuality is legal for women but not men? How about the fact that in Canada, the ...
If the internet played out like an episode of Game of Thrones, with noble houses vying for territorial control, what would the world look like?
When people think of poor air quality, images of a smoggy Beijing skyline often come to mind. China's difficulties with pollution have given it the reputation of having the worst air qual...
The world took yet another small step towards becoming fully connected in 2015. An estimated 3.2 billion people are now online, up from 3 billion in 2014, according to a new report publis...
