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Why Is Central Africa Missing From So Many Maps? 

You’ve probably had the following experience: You are reading along when a map, shaded in a procession of pastels, interrupts the story. Your eyes travel first to you...

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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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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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Environment

Ban Ki-Moon Says It's Time For Investors To Cut Some Checks For Renewable Energy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of investors on Wednesday that they should aim to double the amount of capital they commit to clean energy production by the ...

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Gender

Melinda Gates: Let’s Put Birth Control Back On The Agenda

The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world’s social change issues depend on ensuring that wom...

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Environment

Good News: The Global Doomsday Clock Hasn't Clicked Any Closer To midnight

The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchang...

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WEF Creates Task Force With Carney, Rajan To Study Global Financial System’

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to s...

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Gender

It's Time To Break The Chains Of Dependency For Girls And Women

Throughout history, girls and women have often been invisible outside the home. Even now, in 2016, there are countries where women are prevented from getting a job, from ow...

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Environment

India Cuts Carbon Emissions By 12%

India has successfully submitted its first ?Biennial Update Report? to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).The report states that the Energy Sector contr...

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Gender

Gender Gap Persists At World Economic Forum

“Davos Man” is being urged to broaden his circle, to include more women.With no lines for women at the bathrooms and corridors filled with men in suits, the Wor...

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