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Gender

Gender Is A Journey Not A Destination -- Neil Bartlett

In December 1904, a 56-year-old man called Thomas E Boulton died in the National Hospital in London’s Queen Square. In April 1870, a 22-year-old named Stella Clinton ...

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Human Rights

Protecting The Most Vulnerable: Supporting People With Mental Disorders During Disasters

When 5,000 leaders converge this month on Istanbul, Turkey, at the first World Humanitarian Summit, their goal will be “to stand up for our common humanity and take a...

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Bollywood

RichaChadha: Ambition Still A Negative Word When Applied To A Woman

Richa has established a permanent place in Bollywood through non-conventional roles from portraying a hot-headed don in "Fukrey" to a small-town girl fighting taboos around...

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Human Rights

Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments ha...

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Sustainable Development

The International Space Station Just Orbited Earth For The 100,000th Time

After almost 18 years of circling Earth, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit on Monday.
To remind us all of how completely metal that is, NAS...

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Hollywood

Has Celebrity Feminism Failed?

It has become fashionable to identify as a feminist in Hollywood, but a social and political force needs substance, not just award-ceremony speeches, to refocus the spotlig...

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Sustainable Development

New Stem Cell Discovery Could Boost Corn Crop Yields By An Astounding 50 Percent

A newly discovered stem cell signaling pathway could boost yields from corn and other staple crops by up to 50 percent in the very near term, according to a paper published...

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Festivals

Marlin Kirby And The Chicago Caribbean Film Festival

Marlin Kirby has been involved in the entertainment industry because he loves acting and films fascinate him. He decided to take his passion for film and create the Chicago...

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Bollywood

No More Lampooning, Bollywood Embraces Gay Characters

There was a time when films such as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya (1998) lampooned people from the LGBT community through characters who were manily sidekicks, had overtly femini...

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Human Rights

Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She wo...

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