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Of Meanies And Queens

What’s a soap opera without a couple of mean women or vamps? Call them what you may, these epitomes of the Wicked Witch from the West or East from the Wizard of Oz, a...

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Human Rights

Around The World Women Struggle To Secure Land Rights, Own Less Than Twenty Percent

It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their...

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Festivals

Malayalam Film Sexy Durga Wins At Rotterdam Film Fest

Malayalam independent filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga has won the The Hivos Tiger Award at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The director&rs...

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Environment

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Radiation At Highest Level Since 2011 Meltdown

Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ag...

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Hollywood

Richie Sambora Leads Innovative Humanitarian Funding

Richie Sambora, co-founder of csnaps.org, hosted the official launch this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. Csnaps creates powerful connections betwee...

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Gender

Myanmar's Long History Of Female Empowerment

Last week, as I peered over a sea of pink hats at the Women's March in Washington DC, one poster caught my eye. Next to a gigantic papier-mache earth was a sign, distant, b...

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Environment

Deutsche Bank Pulls Out Of Coal Projects To Meet Paris Climate Pledge

Deutsche Bank, the biggest bank in Germany, has said it will stop financing coal projects as part of its commitments under the Paris agreement to tackle global warming. &ld...

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Alternative Entertainment

Girl Power: A Major Exhibition Features 40 Female Artistes Who Have Elevated Knitting, Weaving, Sewing And Crochet To A High Art Form

It has been a week dominated by politics, with the swearing in of President Trump and huge women’s marches in the US, London and around the world. Many women marching...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Beginners Guide To Fantastic Beasts And The Films That Embraced Them

Recently, I broke a long-standing self-imposed rule of not watching any promotional materials or reading anything about a film until I’ve seen the completed film, whe...

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Human Rights

Give Us Back Our River

One part of the Ennore creek, covered with a layer of black mass, lies still like a corpse. Another channel of dark water, the Buckingham Canal, which carries petroleum eff...

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