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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as ...

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Festivals

11th Tel Aviv International Children And Youth Film Festival Kicks Off.

The 11th Tel Aviv International Children and Youth Film Festival takes place this year from July 2-9 at the Tel Aviv Cinema theque. The festival is a carefully chosen selec...

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Hollywood

Natalie Portman Wants Female Director For Ginsburg Biopic.

Actress Natalie Portman is in negotiations to play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an upcoming biopic and wants a female director on board. Ginsburg revealed t...

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Gender

Dove Men+ Care:The Joy Of Fatherhood

A caring attitude can also exhibit strength and masculinity – a point Dove has tried to drive home in its latest ‘Real Strength’ campaign. The current cam...

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Health

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi Gives Support For 100 Girls!

Yet again, Vivek Oberoi has showed his generous heart… The actor-philanthropist has recently supported SHE campaign (Support Her Education) for a skin care brand (Th...

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Health

MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...

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Gender

New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

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Hollywood

Elton John AIDS Foundation Marks Global Parents Day

To mark Global Parents Day, the Elton John AIDS Foundation joined forces with a representative of the US government at a private event on Monday 1 June celebrating their co...

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Bollywood

In Hindi Films, Strong Women Are A Formula That Works.

In the hit Hindi film of the season, an architect cares for her cantankerous father, enduring his careful analysis of his own constipation, his contempt for marriage, which...

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