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Gender

Women Transform Societies - Melinda Gates

When Neelam Bhengra’s husband wakes up before she does, he makes the tea. It wasn’t always this way,Neelam told me when i met her last year in Jharkhand. Things...

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Human Rights

Energy New Report Indicates Scale Of India’s Exclusion From Progress

Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarte...

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Trending

When Journalists Write Theories Of Change

The Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population program recently released our new strategy on how transparency, participation and accountability can (hopef...

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Health

WHO Outlines Ways To Prevent And Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, "Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how", suggests that 60% of th...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Health

Stanford-Led Study Underscores Huge Gap Between Rich, Poor In Global Surgery

The number of surgeries performed worldwide has grown steadily, particularly in the developing world, yet there remains an enormous gap in surgical care between rich and po...

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Sustainable Development

Idea's Help No One On A Shelf, Take Them To The World

Have you thought of a clever product to mitigate climate change? Did you invent an ingenious gadget to light African villages at night? Have you come up with a new kind of ...

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Festivals

DFW South Asian Film Festival: A Weekend Of Color, Contemplation And Cinema In North Texas

When fans and community members make a beeline for the action second year in a row, it is safe to assume that it has won over the hearts of the local community. Such was th...

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Health

How Air Pollution Affects Our Global Health

People have to breath to live. Air pollution can make that a problem.
A new study from the University of British Colombia found that more than 5.5 million people will ...

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Human Rights

Malnutrition, Alcoholism In Tribal Madhya Pradesh Get Baneebai Cure

At first glance, her profile hardly looks newsworthy — a young woman of the poor Bhilala tribe in Madhya Pradesh; a high school dropout.But BaneebaiNingwal has the re...

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