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There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Gender

Mumbai To Host Workshop On "Gender Sensitive Reporting" For Working Journalists

A one-day workshop on Gender Sensitive Reporting for working journalists is going to be organized on15th February 2016 at the JB Hall of the Films Division, Mumbai. The wor...

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Human Rights

Universal Human Rights - The Foundations Of The Global Goals

This April will mark the third anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in history. In 2013, over 1,100 workers were tragically killed during the collap...

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Environment

The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change

The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missi...

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Human Rights

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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Health

Family Planning Is 'Critical Link' In Eradicating Poverty

Giving people access to family planning is crucial to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, reproductive health experts said this week. Speaking at an...

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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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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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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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