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A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Top Bollywood Actresses Come Together For India’s ‘I Am Girl Rising’ Campaign.

Contemporary actresses including Kareena Kapoor, Nandita Das, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Parineeti Chopra, Sushmita Sen, and Alia Bhatt set their differences aside to come togethe...

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Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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eGirl Power Aims To Stand Up To Gender Inequality

As Ariana Grande fearlessly tweeted, misogyny and gender double standards are still deeply embedded in the US. Her mantra: No woman belongs to any other person but herself....

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How Countries Can Improve Women’s Access To Water

Because of water’s multidimensional role in economic development and poverty reduction, addressing the constraints that women and girls face in accessing and managing...

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Pyaasa – Guru Dutt’s Cult Classic Becomes The Only Indian Restored Film For World Premiere At The 72nd Venice Film Festival In September 2015 In The Competition Section (E)

“Pyaasa” – A timeless masterpiece by Guru Dutt becomes the only Indian film restored by an Indian company for a world premiere in the competition section ...

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Plastic Will Be Inside Nearly Every Seabird On Earth By 2050

Oceans are the world’s forgotten landfill, and seabirds are turning into flying garbage cans. By 2050, 99 percent of all seabird species will be contaminated by the p...

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11 Laws From Around The World That Stand In The Way Of Gender Equality

Today, more countries uphold gender equality in their constitutions than ever before- and this is reason to celebrate. But, at the same time, many of these same countries u...

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