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Has Celebrity Feminism Failed?

It has become fashionable to identify as a feminist in Hollywood, but a social and political force needs substance, not just award-ceremony speeches, to refocus the spotlightA...

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$1m Prize For Heroic Burundi Woman Who Saved 30,000 Children From War

(CNN)During the brutal Burundi civil war which claimed 300,000 lives, Marguerite Barankitse risked her own to rescue around 30,000 children from persecution. At the outbreak ...

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Princess Mary Of Denmark Makes Impassioned Plea To Close The Gender Gap

Princess Mary of Denmark has made an impassioned plea for governments and society to do more to achieve gender equality in a speech to open a major conference on women's right...

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Factbox: Women's Health - From Maternal Mortality To Child Marriage

COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over 5,000 delegates from 150 countries arrive in Copenhagen this week for Women Deliver - a major global conference on the health, r...

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Daughter-in-law Be Treated As Family Member, Not Housemaid: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has sa...

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New Stem Cell Discovery Could Boost Corn Crop Yields By An Astounding 50 Percent

A newly discovered stem cell signaling pathway could boost yields from corn and other staple crops by up to 50 percent in the very near term, according to a paper published Mo...

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It's Already Looking Like 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record

How long can the hot streak last?Global average temperatures set a seventh straight monthly record in April, and it wasn't even close, according to NASA figures. Last month's ...

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Marlin Kirby And The Chicago Caribbean Film Festival

Marlin Kirby has been involved in the entertainment industry because he loves acting and films fascinate him. He decided to take his passion for film and create the Chicago Ca...

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African Storytelling Meets Comic Books With These New Superheroes

African superheroes are emerging, as comic book creators from the continent seek to change the meaning of diversity, bringing relatable characters and rich storytelling tradit...

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No More Lampooning, Bollywood Embraces Gay Characters

There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly feminine ...

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KASHISH 2026 PRIDE VENUES ANNOUNCED

South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival KASHISH Pride Film Festival to be held...

May 9 2026

DEMOCRACY ON UNEVEN GROUND

Vinta Nanda examines how corporate power, religious majoritarianism, weakened institutio...

May 8 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 3

in Part 3 of Student City, Prof. Dr. Piyush Roy explores privilege, loneliness, desire, ...

May 7 2026