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Stars Support LGBTQ Students At Point Honors Gala

More than 400 guests joined Olympians and stars of stage and screen to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students at the annual P...

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Human Rights

Newspaper By Street-Children Tells Stories Of Lost Childhood

Balak nama has been in circulation since 2003. It is a unique newspaper, written by and for street children. The story of how it came to be published is very interesting an...

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Human Rights

500 Women Who Are Manual Scavengers Soon To Become Cabbies

The project has been taken up by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a part of the National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation’s (NSKFDC) wor...

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Human Rights

Securing Our Societies From The Threat Of Senseless Terrorism

Since 2000, we have witnessed a more than ten-fold increase in the number of deaths from violent extremism and terrorism - from 3,329 victims in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014. And...

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Hollywood

Bryan Adams Cancels Concert Over LGBT Laws

Bryan Adams is the latest star to cancel a show in protest over new LGBT laws. “Mississippi has passed anti-LGBT ‘Religious Liberty’ bill 1523. I find it ...

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Human Rights

Sesame Street Has A New Muppet In Afghanistan Who Promotes Girls Rights

Zari – whose name means “shimmering” in the Dari and Pashto languages – has been tasked with a mission to promote female empowerment. She made her d...

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Human Rights

How Women Silently Campaign For Their Share Of Water

Many women in Mokhadatehsil of Maharashtra have donned the role of social workers and they are visiting one village after the other, silently campaigning for their rightful...

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Hollywood

Stars Speak Out Against Tennessee Legislation Targeting Transgender Students

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, has announced that some of the biggest...

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Human Rights

Bruce Springsteen Cancels Gig After Passing Of 'Anti-LGBT' Law

Glory Days. Rocker Bruce Springsteen has cancelled a concert due to be held in North Carolina in protest over the recent passing of a law that many believe is discriminator...

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Human Rights

Passionate Debate Erupts Over The Future For Women In Islam

Sparks flew when Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who lives under a fatwa for her condemnation of Sharia law, came face to face with fellow Somali women’s activist Hibaaq Osman The f...

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