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Environment

UN Committee May Again Consider Listing Great Barrier Reef As 'In Danger'

As a condition of UNESCO not listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” in 2015, the World Heritage Committee said Australia needed to report back to the com...

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Human Rights

UN Human Rights Council: Using Sport And The Olympic Ideal To Promote Human Rights For All, Including Persons With Disabilities

For more than a decade, Human Rights Watch has documented human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events, or MSEs, such as the Olympics, football’s World Cup, For...

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Health

Infant Mortality Rate: Target Set By Millennium Development Goals Not Met

Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin 2014, published by the Registrar General of India and was released earlier this month shows that none of the ten big states (for w...

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Environment

Global Air Pollution Crisis 'Must Not Be Left To Private Sector'

The global air pollution crisis killing more than 6 million people a year must be tackled by governments as a matter of urgency and not just left to the private sector, a r...

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Environment

Australians Have Spent Almost $8bn On Rooftop Solar Since 2007, Says Report

In its latest State of Solar report, Solar Citizens – which campaigns for, and represents the interests of, solar owners – has for the first time estimated Aust...

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Festivals

Kannada Film Thithi Wins Top Award In Shanghai Film Festival

Kannada film "Thithi" on Saturday won Asia New Talent Awards for best film and best script writer during the on-going 19th Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Th...

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Hollywood

Anne Hathaway Is UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador

Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway is the latest Hollywood figure to be appointed by the United Nations as a global goodwill ambassador to promote gender equality and wome...

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Environment

What Would A Global Warming Increase Of 1.5c Be Like?

In Paris, delegates called on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) to report on the implications of a 1.5C target. They want the job done by...

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Health

India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

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Sustainable Development

This App Helps Citizens Report Deadly Mosquito Sightings

For the past two years, Spanish citizens have been using an app dubbed ‘Mosquito Alert’ to report sightings and breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus, or Tiger m...

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