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Gender

This Artist Is Inviting Strangers To Grope Her In Public: Here's Why?

For women around the world, sexual harassment is a daily part of life. Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré is challenging some of those misogonystic norms by showing...

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Hollywood

Danny Glover Hits Out At Racism

The international community must increase its commitment to fighting Afrophobia and discrimination against people of African descent, United Nations Children’s Fund (...

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Human Rights

India Abstains At UN Vote On LGBT Independent Expert

India avoided taking a position on the need to end discrimination based on sexual orientation at the Human Rights Council of the UN, as the Supreme Court is yet to “p...

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Human Rights

UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual...

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Environment

Leaving EU Will Make It Harder For UK To Tackle Climate Change, Says Minister

“While I think the UK’s role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday, our commitment to dealing with it has not...

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Festivals

London Indian Film Festival To Showcase Issue-Based Movies

The seventh Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival will be seen challenging stereotypes of India and South Asia, and will wrestle with some very hard issues. The Indi...

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Gender

Five Young Indian Women Get Real About Masturbation

“Why don’t you just start asking people for their pooping stories?” one slightly peeved commenter posted on Homegrown’s instagram page. Shortly afte...

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Health

India Among Five Countries That Will See High Under-5 Deaths: UN

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Congo and Angola will account for more than half of global under-five deaths by 2030, according to a UN report which said 69 million children belo...

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Human Rights

Campaigning To Make India’s Roads Safer

Nine years ago, Piyush Tewari was managing operations in India for a Los Angeles-based private equity firm when tragedy struck his family. While returning home from school ...

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Environment

UN Committee May Again Consider Listing Great Barrier Reef As 'In Danger'

As a condition of UNESCO not listing the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger” in 2015, the World Heritage Committee said Australia needed to report back to the com...

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