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Human Rights

One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are n...

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Sustainable Development

Why Tiny Electric Planes And $25 Tickets Could Be The Future Of Regional Air Travel

Imagine taking your next trip of a couple hundred miles. New York City to Boston, for example. Or Houston to Dallas. Tampa to Miami. The obvious choice now might be to driv...

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Environment

Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustr...

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Trending

Let's Talk About Trolls

I have been called a whore, a ‘randi’, ‘c***”, bitch and ‘presstitute” on Twitter and other social media platforms so often that now I b...

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Gender

Bend It Like Poonam

This post originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organization based in India. An edited version is published below as part ...

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Human Rights

Trans People Would Love To Adopt As Shown In The Powerful Vicks Ad, But They Legally Can't

If you are among the ones, like yours truly, who got a little teary-eyed after watching the Vicks ad that surfaced on your Facebook timeline, you have company. There's a go...

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Alternative Entertainment

Is It Wrong To Group Together LGBT Art?

Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of ot...

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Bollywood

11 Indian Filmmakers Choose One Film That Impacted Them Deeply

“Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, I think it is the mirror of the world.” —Jeanne Moreau Cinema and time share a...

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Trending

Tomatoes, Limes & Sex-Selective Abortions

The United States is withdrawing all of its funding from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) after claiming without evidence that the agency supports coercive abortions in China...

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Hollywood

Kristin Davis Appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the appointment of internationally acclaimed actress and philanthropist Kristin Davis as its Goodwill Ambassador. Three years ...

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