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Climate change marchers told to hire private security firm

Campaign Against Climate Change says Britons now have to ?pay to protest? after police refuse to close roads along route The right to stage demonstrations in Britain could ...

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Sustainable Development

India Hits Its U.N. Poverty-Cutting Target, but Misses Others

India is on track to cut poverty in half by the end of this year, compared to 2000 levels, but needs to do more to improve education and empower women, a United Nations rep...

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Hollywood

GiveStars Charity Gets Boost From Hollywood Stars, Indiegogo

Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Nina Dobrev, Chris Evans and Vanessa Hudgens have pledged their support Celebrities are lining up en masse to be involved with giveStars, a perso...

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Sustainable Development

Never mind growth, Davos delegates – how about a World Development Forum? Lawrence Haddad

This year’s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world’s populatio...

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Environment

Data peers into Greenland?s ice sheet

This year?s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world?s population is soon to...

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Hollywood

Jessica Alba Fights Childhood Cancer with The MaxLove Project

Jessica Alba’s eco-friendly family and baby product company, The Honest Company, might still be fairly new, but it has already started making a difference. Last year,...

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Top 5

Television’s Otherwise Abled People

When it comes to portraying a mentally imbalanced person on the screen, and I am referring to television, there is a misconception that any character that has retardation i...

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Sustainable Development

The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

It was close to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Nov. 4, 2013, and Sasha Fleischman was riding the 57 bus home from school. An 18-year-old senior at a small private high...

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Thought Factory

Lifting the Curtain on Mental Health

“Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living,...

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Hollywood

Angelina Jolie Visits Iraq, Calls For International Leadership To End Suffering

The UN refugee agency’s Special Envoy Angelina Jolie is in Dohuk, Iraq, visiting Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqi citizens in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to offer...

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