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Investors sound the alarm on climate change
Why a coalition worth $3 trillion is calling on the oil, gas, coal, and energy industries to reassess the risks of a warming planet: If human-caused climate change is accepte...
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Violence versus Women is an everyday occurrence in cities. Learn what the UN is doing 2 make cities safer
Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces are an everyday occurrence for women and girls around the world—in urban and rural areas, in develo...
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India’s gender gap record among the world’s worst
MUMBAI: A plummeting child sex ratio is largely to blame for India’s poor performance in the 2013 Global Gender Gap Index released by the World Economic Forum. India ran...
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Mizoram: Women Voters Outnumber Men, But No Women’s Representation
Mizoram began to have a separate legislature of its own since 1972 when it was elevated from a district council under the state of Assam to the status of union territory, but ...
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Women2Drive' campaign gathers speed in their quest to lift the driving ban for women in Saudi Arabia
(New York) – Saudi authorities should end the country’s driving ban for women as the “Women2Drive” campaign gathers momentum, Human Rights Watch said t...
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7.3 magnitude earthquake off Japan prompts Fukushima plant evacuation
An earthquake of 7.3 magnitude has hit 231 miles (371 kilometers) east of Japan’s Honshu Island with tremors felt in Tokyo. The quake prompted an evacuation at the devas...
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Polio cases in Syria spark alarm over rise in diseases including flesh-eating parasites due to civil war
The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in Syria, sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the cou...
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Investors ask fossil fuel companies to assess how business plans fare in low-carbon future.
BOSTON, MA Oct 24, 2013:A group of 70 global investors managing more than $3 trillion of collective assets today launched the first-ever coordinated effort to spur 45 of the w...
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Nuclear power plant in Japan moves radioactive water to facilitate damage control for Typhoon Francisco.
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant is bracing itself for Typhoon Francisco, set to hit the country this weekend, by quickly securing new storage space for contaminate...
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The Growth of Global Immunisation
Immunisation has been one of the great success stories of global health. It is estimated to prevent the deaths of two to three million children each year. But another 1.5 mill...
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