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Thought Factory

A Thought for Children’s Day

“There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that the...

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Health

Dr. Harshad Sanghvi: Reducing Maternal and Child Deaths Requires Better Trained, Empowered Health Workers

Technological solutions, like improved equipment and logistical tools, have been trumpeted as keys to finally ending preventable maternal and child deaths. ??ut it?? not ju...

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Festivals

Day 1 of the 17th Manhattan Short opens in Mumbai with a bang!

~ Workshop on The Short Film Industry: Boom and more enlightened short film enthusiasts ~

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Sustainable Development

Empowering women is good for the economy

Last month, the Gujarat state government in India instituted a two-week celebration on the empowerment of women. The celebration quickly subsided when the police took actio...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra Inspires Teenage Girls In India To Aim High With UNICEF

New Bollywood Actress, International Recording Artist and UNICEF India Ambassador Priyanka Chopra met with young women in Chandrapur, India, to mark International Youth Day...

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Hollywood

Adverts for women: The gender agenda

A new marketing campaign by Always is the latest to stress the importance of a woman’s appearance. Natalie Haynes looks at whether this is a positive strategy –...

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Bollywood

‘Women Empowered In Support Of Sewa Day’ In Conversation With Vivek Oberoi

Some people talk the talk and others walk the walk. Vivek Oberoi, described as a Bollywood actor, social worker, adventure sports enthusiast, poet, pilot and dreamer, inspi...

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Hollywood

“She Started It” Aims To Change Silicon Valley’s Gender Inequality Problem

A NEW FILM FOCUSES ON WHAT MAKES FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED--AND INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF GIRLS TO FOLLOW SUIT. ?You can?t be what you can?t see? said Marie Wilson...

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Hollywood

America Ferrera is all about big-screen girl power

Count on America Ferrera, 30, to play empowered women.

“I love that my character in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (out June 13) is a born adventurer and leader.&...

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Trending

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy releases 2nd Edition of Annual Survey of India's City-Systems ASICS (2014)

New Delhi, June 10, 2014:  Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy today released the 2nd Edition of the...

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