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Environment

A River Comes To The People

Nanduwali In East Rajasthan Started Flowing Again When The Villagers Decided To Work With Nature And Not Against It. The River Is Now Lifeline To Those Settled On Her Banks...

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Human Rights

Global Profits, And Peril, From Child Labor

Governments Should Impose Mandatory Restrictions
Governments should better regulate businesses to prevent child labor in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said ...

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Health

What Effect Does Paid Maternity Leave Have On Infant Mortality?

For each additional month of paid maternity leave offered in low- and middle-income countries, infant mortality is reduced by 13 percent.
“A significant number o...

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Environment

So We Signed the Paris Agreement. Now What?

On Friday, representatives from 175 nations signed the Paris Agreement, which outlines voluntary carbon emissions and climate targets. It's doubtlessly a momentous step in ...

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Environment

Mitsubishi Becomes Latest Automaker To Admit To Cheating Consumers And Regulators

The latest example of the trend surfaced Wednesday when Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) revealed that it lied about the fuel economy of at least 620,000 so-called ...

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Hollywood

Prince Charity Work, Events And Causes

Prince supported Rebuild the Dream, a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of everyday people - from seniors to students, moms, dads, brothers and sisters—who come t...

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Human Rights

Waterless In Marathwada: Farm Crisis Is Extra Hard On Women

In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-t...

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Documentary / Shorts

NEXT: Cinema Innovation in the Digital Experience Economy

Cinemas are in the vanguard of innovative approaches to audience development, community building and demand creation. Now fully-digitized and increasingly networked, the be...

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Environment

One Of The Biggest Myths About Beating Climate Change Has Just Been Busted

For the second straight year, the global economy has grown without a corresponding rise in emissions tied to climate change, reversing an almost two-century-old trend and g...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s ...

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