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Human Rights

India: Protection Of Traditional Knowledge In India

The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's ...

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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

In Developing World, Cancer Is A Very Different Disease

In the United States the median age at which colon cancer strikes is 69 for men and 73 for women. In Chad the average life expectancy at birth is about 50. Children who sur...

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Environment

The Obama Administration Just Made It Virtually Impossible For Hunters To Import African Lion Trophies

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has placed two African lion subspecies under its protection, declaring one type in west-central Africa endangered and the other, found in e...

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Health

The World?? Most Underestimated Disease

The dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water. Khayelitsha, the s...

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Health

New Report Signals Country Progress In The Path To Malaria Elimination

9 DECEMBER 2015 ? BRUSSELS -?New estimates from WHO show a significant increase in the number of countries moving towards malaria elimination, with prevention efforts savin...

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Gender

The Relationship Between Women’s Education And Fertility

With positive signals for fertility decline emerging in sub-Saharan Africa, and development economists debating the potential for African countries to see a “demograp...

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Festivals

Tunisia's Film Festival Opens Amid Tight Security

Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival, where Arab and African cinematographers showcase their work, opened amid heavy security Saturday in a country rocked this ...

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Bollywood

Ajay Devgan To Support UN Humanicy Program.

Humanicy coming together to showcase the social & global issue using world championships Nema platform. “Humanicy” is a word coined by H.E. Mr. Angelo Anton...

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Festivals

Film Festival Celebrates Jewish?Culture

When the Calgary Jewish Film Festival began 15 years ago, its opening night attracted 40 people. This Saturday the festival will open with a screening of the documentary Ro...

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