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11 Maternal Health Issues You Have Never Heard About

When I first became pregnant, I had a lot of fears. I worried whether or not I would be a good mom, if my baby would be healthy, and if I would be able to get that complica...

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Gender

New York Makes History, With Tampons And Pads

New York City made history today with passage of the nation’s first legislative package to ensure access to menstrual products in public schools, shelters and correct...

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Human Rights

Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After h...

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Festivals

A Film Festival In Honor Of Farmers

Farmers engage in food production and yet many experience hunger. This painful paradox is one of the themes the six official entries to the first TOFARM (The Outstanding Fa...

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Gender

The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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Sustainable Development

Why Haven't We Explored The Ocean Like Outer Space?

Only five percent of the seafloor has been topographically imaged, which leaves 65 percent of the entire planet (not counting land masses) relatively unknown. Yet, since th...

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Environment

Australians Have Spent Almost $8bn On Rooftop Solar Since 2007, Says Report

In its latest State of Solar report, Solar Citizens – which campaigns for, and represents the interests of, solar owners – has for the first time estimated Aust...

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Alternative Entertainment

Tangled, Toronto’s First Accessible Art Gallery For Disabled Artists, Is Bringing The Outsiders In

Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed in the 1970s without the artist’s name, who was rarely e...

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Bollywood

Complete Your Education Before Coming To Bollywood: Madhur Bhandarkar

Madhur Bhandarkar, who has directed hit films such as Chandni Bar (2001), Page 3 (2005) and Fashion (2008), among others, says everyone should complete their education befo...

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Google Helps Kids Send Videos To Dads In Prison For Father's Day

“When you come home, Dad, I want… ” Maya, 9, stops and puts her face in her hands, unable to continue. Maya, whose father is on a 25-year sentence in a C...

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