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Human Rights

A Photographer Captures LGBTQ Africans Around The World

For the past three and a half years, queer Nigerian-American photographer Mikael Owunna has traveled around North America documenting communities of LGBTQ African immigrant...

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Gender

Poor Crowd In Women's Matches Due To Poor TV Coverage

Mithali Raj believes India fans would stand to benefit if the women's cricket matches were broadcasted. India women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj has attributed poor a...

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Health

Seventieth World Health Assembly Opens In Geneva

In her final opening address to the World Health Assembly as Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan offered some advice to delegates "as you continue to shape the future of thi...

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Environment

Amazing Haul Of Ancient Human Finds Unveiled

A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa. The finds, including a well-preserved skull, bolster the idea that the H...

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Health

Multidrug-Resistant Tb Will Rise In India, Says New Study

A month after the Health Ministry set itself the target of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, a new study in the medical journal Lancet says that India’s TB crisi...

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Sustainable Development

Strong Coffee Stronger Women: Bill Gates

Why? First, that descending red line captures one of the most amazing stories of human progress: It shows how the number of deaths of children under 5 per year has been cut...

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Sustainable Development

Early Humans Co-existed With Hominins In Africa

Scientists say the findings raises questions about human evolution, including the prospect that behaviours previously attributed to humans may have been developed by homini...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra Dismayed By Child Sexual Abuse In Zimbabwe

Priyanka Chopra says she is dismayed by the level of sexual violence against children in Zimbabwe, with government officials there telling her many young girls are ‘a...

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Sustainable Development

Kofi Annan: On The Pictures That Capture Our Choking Planet

We are running out of space. Fly over Africa at night and you will see mile after mile of fires burning red in the dark as scrub is removed to make way for human beings. Sa...

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Gender

Woman Who Debated With Buddha

Neelakesi proved that anybody can be a rishi, irrespective of birth A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a fascinating character, who serves as the focal point for a now lo...

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