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Sustainable Development

Idea's Help No One On A Shelf, Take Them To The World

Have you thought of a clever product to mitigate climate change? Did you invent an ingenious gadget to light African villages at night? Have you come up with a new kind of ...

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Gender

Breaking The Gender Earnings Gap

Betty Ajio has made a living for the past 23 years doing a job that most women would not think of doing.
The 43-year-old metal fabricator makes 120 to 230 cooking pots...

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Human Rights

Five Ways Tech Is Crowdsourcing Women’s Empowerment

From gathering data on street harassment in Egypt to finding respectful gynaecologists in India, technology is helping women fight discrimination Even when data is gathered...

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Human Rights

India: Protection Of Traditional Knowledge In India

The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's ...

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Human Rights

Why Is Central Africa Missing From So Many Maps? 

You’ve probably had the following experience: You are reading along when a map, shaded in a procession of pastels, interrupts the story. Your eyes travel first to you...

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Environment

Threatened By Militias And Traffickers, Mali's Desert Elephants Could Be Extinct In 3 Years

In 2012, poachers began targeting the Gourma elephants. Now, in the face of ongoing political instability — armed militias and traffickers in arms and drugs &mda...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope: Theatre A La Carte

Just a month into the new year, and quite a few noteworthy things have already happened on the theatre scene—Pankaj Kapur returned to theatre with a new play Dope...

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Environment

El Ni?o Worsens Drought In Southern Africa ? And 14 Million People Could Go Hungry

Nearly three million people will be affected in Malawi ? roughly 16 percent of the country's population ? while nearly two million are considered at risk on the Indian Ocea...

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Environment

United Nations Asks For Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia

This year's El Ni?o weather system has hit hard in East Africa, causing the severe drought in Ethiopia and flooding in Somalia. The current drought comes more than two deca...

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Environment

Get Used To Blackouts And Higher Electric Bills As The Climate Changes

Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found ...

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