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Women Fight For Access To Sacred Places In India.

This week, an estimated 500 women traveled by bus toward a temple in the Indian state of Maharashtra with the intent of storming its sacred altar ? where females have been ...

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Gender

21 Leaders 2016 – Meet Three Powerhouses Who Get the Word Out

While waiting at a Calcutta hospital in 1985, MallikaDutt noticed something strange about the women's unit: it was full of burn victims. Dutt, who grew up in India and was ...

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Human Rights

Why 2016 Is The Year To Shake Up Humanitarian Funding

Some say the system to fund the humanitarian response to conflicts and disasters is broken beyond repair. Some say it just needs a tweak. But everyone agrees, global humani...

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Environment

Why Snakes' Biggest Defenders Are In Favor Of Killing Them

So when I learned that some of them are currently gearing up for an event that’s seemingly organized around killing snakes, I was intrigued. The 2016 Python Challenge...

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Festivals

From Iran To Marcellus? A Small-Town Film Festival Is Attracting International Attention

Marcellus, N.Y. -- When Lewis McCaffery decided to launch a hyper-local film festival in Marcellus, he wasn't sure what to expect. But he certainly didn't expect entries fr...

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Health

Breastfeeding Could Prevent 800,000 Child Deaths, Lancet Says

If almost every mother breastfed her children it could prevent more than 800,000 child deaths a year, yet governments are failing to promote and support breastfeeding, with...

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Trending

Reliance Entertainment To Make French Film 'nOmber One'

The Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment today announced partnership with France-based Julie Gayet's Rouge International and Elisa Soussan's my Family to produce actor Se...

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Whistling Woods International To Host LGBT Film Screening

India’s premier film, communication and media arts institutewill host KASHISH Forward, India’s first travelling LGBTQ campus...

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Gender

21 Leaders 2016 - Meet Three Powerhouses Who Test Healthcare.

Something inside Schell Carpenter clicked as she witnessed Texas Senator Wendy Davis' 2013 filibuster of an omnibus anti-choice bill that threatened to reduce the number of...

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Human Rights

Is This The Generation That Eradicates Extreme Poverty?

The year 2015 was a once in a generation event for the world’s citizens and for the planet. In one year, a new blueprint was created to tackle the world’s thorn...

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