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Activists Call On World Leaders To Make Gender Equality Pledge A Reality

World leaders must back up their pledge to end gender inequality with concrete commitments on how they plan to empower women, said activists preparing for the UN Commission...

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Human Rights

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s ...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’
onto the development agenda. It&rs...

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Hollywood

Emma Watson And Forest Whitaker Help Launch Heforshe Arts Week

Film stars, UN officials and New York City came together this week to commemorate International Women’s Day by launching the inaugural HeForShe Arts week, a new initi...

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Hollywood

Katy Perry Supports New Campaign With Nickelodeon International’s Together For Good And Unicef

Nickelodeon International’s Together for Good andUNICEF have joined forces to educate and inspire kids around the world to tackle discrimination and inequality in the...

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Health

Doctors Punjab Health Spend More On Salaries Less On Care

Two separate reports relating to health and healthcare in Punjab released last week have underlined that the poor, especially in rural areas, remain the most vulnerable to ...

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Human Rights

Energy New Report Indicates Scale Of India’s Exclusion From Progress

Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarte...

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Environment

Global Warming Prompts Farmers To Plant Fewer Crops

Rising global temperatures may have a far bigger impact on food production than previously thought according to a study of how farmers in Brazil have actually reacted to a ...

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Human Rights

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Raja...

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