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Sustainable Development

Improving The Quality Of Skills Training: What The Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Can Teach Us

The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) through its eight pilots taught us a great deal about how to make skills training more female-friendly and support young women's trans...

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Gender

20 Women In Hollywood Making A Difference From Behind The Camera

The fight for gender equality will always seem to inevitably fall in front of the camera, so starkly visible amongst its onscreen heroines and celebrity actors. But, to bri...

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Environment

What Some 'Radical Conservationists' Think

Humans started drawing animals the moment they started killing them. The earliest recorded artworks—paintings on the cave walls of Lascaux in southern France—ar...

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Hollywood

Emma Watson And Forest Whitaker Help Launch Heforshe Arts Week

Film stars, UN officials and New York City came together this week to commemorate International Women’s Day by launching the inaugural HeForShe Arts week, a new initi...

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Bollywood

Kalki Koechlin: Cinema Not The Only Means To Change Mindset About Women

"Cinema is a dominant but not the only means to change people's mindset about women," she said at an event on women safety in the national capital. The 32-year-old actress,...

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Financial Jharkhand: Women Hockey Players Learn English To Break Language Barrier

Sonal Minz may hail from Simdega, a remote region in Jharkhand, but that’s not where she wants to remain all her life. A goalkeeper with the Indian women’s hock...

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Bollywood

Shabana Azmi Speaks About Women's Position At 'Women Of Worth' Conclave

We all know that, the legendary actress ShabanaAzmi is someone who minces no words when it comes to 'calling a spade a spade'. And this is something that has always set her...

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Festivals

Hong Kong Film Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary

“We are not making a fetish of the past,” says Roger Garcia, executive director of the Hong Kong Intl Film Festival Society, and one of the co-founders of the f...

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Health

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celeb...

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Sustainable Development

Clean Energy Could Save Hundreds Of Billions In Health Costs Every Year

In Paris late last year, the countries of the world pledged to reduce emissions to keep global warming “well below a 2 degree Celsius” rise in global average te...

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