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Anne Hathaway Shines Spotlight On Parental Leave During International Women's Day

On Wednesday, March 8, American award-winning actor and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador Anne Hathaway will deliver a keynote address at the United Nations Headquarters ...

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Human Rights

India Urged To Build Housing Law On Human Rights

India needs a housing law that is rooted in human rights as bulging cities and rising inequality make housing unaffordable for ever more people, according to a United Natio...

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Hollywood

Smurfs Team Up With United Nations For A Happier, More Peaceful And Equitable World

The popular Smurfs characters are encouraging children, young people and adults to make the world happier, more peaceful, equitable and healthy with a campaign launched tod...

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Health

How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Lives In Rural India

Health Ministry's latest move seeks to start productive conversations around homosexuality, sex, consent, mental health among other things. In what comes as an unusual-yet-...

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Human Rights

Around The World Women Struggle To Secure Land Rights, Own Less Than Twenty Percent

It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their...

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Bollywood

Neeti Mohan Joins UN's War Against Trafficking

Joining the likes of Hollywood celebrities Ashton Kutcher, Nicholas Cage, Demi Moore and Ashley Judd, playback singer Neeti Mohan has collaborated with the United Nations f...

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Hollywood

Cara Delevingne Raises Awareness For Refugee Girls’ Education In Uganda

British model and actress, Cara Delevingne joined Girl Up, the United Nations Foundation's adolescent girls campaign, this past week on a learning trip to Uganda in support...

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Health

Slum Health Is Not Urban Health: Why We Must Distinguish Between The Two

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’...

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Sustainable Development

3 Cities Show Ways To Make Local Progress On The Sustainable Development Goals

A year after all members of the United Nations adopted an ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, we are beginning to see implementation action...

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Sustainable Development

Experts Seek Subsidy For Solar Cooking In Sustainable Development Goals

Vadodara: The organizers of the 6th Solar Cookers International World Conference that concluded here on Wednesday will strive to include solar cooking in the sustainable de...

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