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Divergent's Theo James Visits Refugee Camps In Greece

This week actor Theo James travelled to Greece on his first visit with UNHCR ahead of World Refugee Day. Theo has a very personal story that connects him to the refugee sit...

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Gender

The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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Health

Using Social Media to Prevent Adolescent Suicide

Distraught over a poor grade that she thought would ruin her life, the honor-roll student broadcast her suicide for anyone to see. Hours later, she was in the inpatient psy...

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Human Rights

Can India Benefit From A Human Rights Framework For Business?

On 26 June 2014, the government made a commitment at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), when it voted in favour of a resolution to establish an open-ended int...

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Sustainable Development

Why Haven't We Explored The Ocean Like Outer Space?

Only five percent of the seafloor has been topographically imaged, which leaves 65 percent of the entire planet (not counting land masses) relatively unknown. Yet, since th...

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Environment

Australians Have Spent Almost $8bn On Rooftop Solar Since 2007, Says Report

In its latest State of Solar report, Solar Citizens – which campaigns for, and represents the interests of, solar owners – has for the first time estimated Aust...

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Festivals

New York Asian Film Festival Is Having A Southeast Asian Moment

At the New York Asian Film Festival, Asian film means movies mostly from the continent’s Big Three: Japan, South Korea and the Chinese-language cinemas of Hong Kong, ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Tangled, Toronto’s First Accessible Art Gallery For Disabled Artists, Is Bringing The Outsiders In

Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed in the 1970s without the artist’s name, who was rarely e...

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Bollywood

Complete Your Education Before Coming To Bollywood: Madhur Bhandarkar

Madhur Bhandarkar, who has directed hit films such as Chandni Bar (2001), Page 3 (2005) and Fashion (2008), among others, says everyone should complete their education befo...

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Hollywood

Bradley Cooper To Executive-Produce Star-Studded Stand Up To Cancer TV Broadcast

The Hollywood community is once again uniting to support Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), which will stage its fifth bie...

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