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Menstrual Cycle Still A Barrier To Achieve Gender Equality

Adolescent girls in developing countries miss schools for at least five days every month — 60 days in a year during their menstrual cycle due to the lack of access to...

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Alternative Entertainment

Film Festival Designed To Illuminate The Lives Of The Disabled

A film festival intended to promote and celebrate inclusion of individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, mental illness and other challenges is playing through Thursday in H...

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Hollywood

Hozier Donates Song Proceeds To Domestic Abuse Charities

Irish singer/songwriter Hozier is donating the proceeds of his new single, Cherry Wine, to a series of international domestic abuse charity organisations which provide supp...

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Environment

Scientists Now Fear Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than It Has In All Of Earth?s History

Climate change deniers often argue that the climate change we?re seeing now is just part of Earth?s natural cycle, and isn?t being caused by humans. But new research sugges...

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UN Ushers In Ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve the 17 SDGs over the next 15 years. With the start of the new year, the UN on Fri...

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Gender

“Feminized Poverty”: Poverty A Woman’s Face?

Poverty has different connotations depending upon the circumstances under which we construe it. One such connotation is gender based poverty or feminized poverty. Feminizat...

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Health

The Most Boring Video On A Very Important Human Right

My father often used to tell me about how, during the Second World War, he used to walk the many kilometers from the farm to school, past the camps of the occupying forces....

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Gender

How Far Have Women's Rights Advanced In The Past 20 Years?

Extreme poverty won’t end until gender inequality ends. That’s the unavoidable reality. The continued oppression of women around the world generates t...

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Environment

NASA Hopes Its Dramatic CO2 Simulations Will Get UN Leaders To Act

In a press release, NASA said that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measures at 400 parts per million (ppm), but it?s rising at 2 ppm every year. While...

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Hollywood

Elton John AIDS Foundation Announces $4.4 Million In Grants

On October 21, the Elton John AIDS Foundation announced a new series of grants totaling $4.4 million to support organizations fighting the HIV/AID Sepidemic in critical and...

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