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Human Rights

Corruption, Caste Keep Poor From Owning Land In Northern India

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - w...

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Bollywood

Athiya Shetty: I'll Do Anything For Animals

Actress Athiya Shetty says she can do anything for animals. "I often visit animal shelters, and animal adoption fairs to spread awareness because I love animals. So, these ...

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Human Rights

Scale Of Child Slavery "Shocking" In India's Spinning Mills - Research

Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 percent of south India's spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers sai...

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Environment

Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures

Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the...

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Festivals

Award-Winning Egyptian Films Shine At International Festivals

The 98-minute film, written and directed by Diab, depicts the political turbulence and uncertainty after the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, particularly ...

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Hollywood

Viola Davis, Madeleine K. Albright And Condoleezza Rice To Take Part In Watermark Conference For Women

The Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley announced this week that Tony and Emmy award-winning actress Viola Davis will deliver a keynote address and former U.S. Se...

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Gender

Meet The Woman Who Has Helped Over 10,000 Mentally Challenged Women Live With Dignity

Sonali Mughdar is a 25-year-old Mumbai resident living with hearing and speech impairments and an intellectual disability. Her father passed...

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Hollywood

Katy Perry And Orlando Bloom Spread Christmas Cheer tTo Children's Hospital As Santa And Mrs. Claus

We don't need to tell you that your first Christmas together as a couple is MAJOR relationship milestone. But we will anyway — mainly because of how excited we are to...

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Gender

These Women Took On Male-Dominated Workplaces And Emerged Inspirational Winners!

Access to sustainable paid employment is the key to women’s empowerment and capacity to exercise control over their lives. The Beijing Platform for Action had underli...

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Sustainable Development

Why 2016 Was The Year Of The Algorithmic Timeline

2016 was the year of "post fact" news, but it was also the year of post-new news. 2016 was the year of the algorithmic timeline, in which tech companies dismantled the conc...

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