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Sting Sends Video Message To Amazonian Chiefs

Sting has sent a special video message to Amazonian chiefs at a London press conference highlighting accelerating threats to their rights and the rainforest. Renowned Amazo...

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Sustainable Development

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

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Health

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

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Hollywood

Viola Davis Helps Raise $4.5 Million To Fight Childhood Hunger In America

The Safeway Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) have announced they have raised more than $4.5 million in support of Hunger Is, a joint charitable in...

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Health

Can Social Accountability Help Ensure Rights and Better Participation in Maternal Health Services?

Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that creates a...

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Environment

India invokes ‘right to grow’ to tell rich nations of its stand on future climate change negotiations

In what may be a strong signal to rich nations on the issue of climate change, New Delhi on Tuesday said the developing countries, including India, have a “right to g...

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Sustainable Development

Where are rural courts?

The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts are still few and far betw...

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Hollywood

Why you're seeing more women and people of color Google Doodles

When Google executive Megan Smith heard about a report in March analyzing a lack of diversity in Google Doodles, her reaction was not what you might expect. An accounting o...

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Environment

CO2 emissions in ASEAN from transport sector will double by 2050, warns energy agency

If the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to be believed, the amount of carbon emissions from transport in ASEAN nations will double by 2050. At the same time, carbon emi...

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Sustainable Development

Bacterial, chemical contamination high in downstream rivers in state

The sixth phase of project development and management (CWRDM), has reaffirmed the fears that most downstream rivers are bacterially and chemically contaminated. “Bact...

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