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Newly Disability Definition To Be Widened

The government is set to widen the definition of "disability" to bring the count of physically challenged persons in sync with the ground situation, heeding complaints that...

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Human Rights

Poor Reintegration Leaves India's Rescued Child Workers At Risk – Researchers

India's strategy for rescuing and reintegrating child victims of labour trafficking is marred by poor coordination, a lack of accountability and inadequate resources that c...

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Environment

Attention Must Be Paid (Not To Climate Change)

A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
This is from a news story on Thursday: “We are not saying this is defi...

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Idea Extends Easy Share To Support Child Education

After Jyoti Singh finished school, she wanted to work in the field of Physics. Her parents and teachers encouraged her to enrol in the computer science stream, though she w...

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Health

Urban Health: Major Opportunities For Improving Global Health Outcomes, Despite Persistent Health Inequities

New data on the health of city-dwellers in almost 100 countries show that as the world’s urban population continues to grow, health inequities - especially between th...

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Human Rights

On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of prob...

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Alternative Entertainment

Playwrights Are Putting America's Financial Inequality On The Stage

THERE is something familiar about the Blakes, the American family at the centre of “The Humans”, a new play by Stephen Karam that is now on Broadway. Anyone who...

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Human Rights

Tackling Inequality As Injustice: Four Challenges For The Human Rights Agenda

Over the last three months, openGlobalRights has brought together leading practitioners from various fields to debate economic inequality from a human rights perspective. <...

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Sustainable Development

How The Govt Plans To Dispose 484 Tonnes Of Bio-Medical Waste Everyday

Only 15% of all biomedical waste is hazardous, but the treatment of all waste is important, not just for the public but also healthcare workers. It’s also an environm...

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Facebook, Twitter Will Make You 2.7 Times More Depressed

Human being is a social animal; and this fact is not based on the launch of Facebook or Twitter. Since ancient times, human beings formed social communities, and faught for...

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