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Human Rights

Sesame Street Has A New Muppet In Afghanistan Who Promotes Girls Rights

Zari – whose name means “shimmering” in the Dari and Pashto languages – has been tasked with a mission to promote female empowerment. She made her d...

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Festivals

This Year's Film Festival Slims Down ... To 180 Movies

The 35th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival opens Thursday with a new screening philosophy, some new venues and a host of new activities.
One constant of...

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Documentary / Shorts

Global Health in Lights: Hollywood, Health & Society in Washington, D.C. - Part 1

Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society program, moderated this discussion which brought top TV producers, writers...

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Human Rights

Agri Can Help Contain Biotic Pressure On Forests

Dilip Gode, executive director of Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS), has been working in the field of community development for the last 25 years. Supporter of Fo...

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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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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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Human Rights

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Raja...

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Gender

Melinda Gates, MarieClair.com's New Contributing Editor, On What's Next For Women

For the first five decades of my life, I was, at various points, a computer science nerd, a Microsoft executive, a full-time mom, and a co-chair of the foundation Bill and ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Film Festival Designed To Illuminate The Lives Of The Disabled

A film festival intended to promote and celebrate inclusion of individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, mental illness and other challenges is playing through Thursday in H...

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Sustainable Development

How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Pr...

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