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Sustainable Development

India Can Guide Africa In Capacity Building For Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The current development agenda is driven by five transformative shifts: to leave no one behind; to put sustainable development at the core; to transform economies for jobs ...

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Environment

These Nations Might Have The Most To Lose With A Global Climate Deal

So far, more than 120 countries have made detailed pledges for reducing emissions to the United Nations before the Paris conference in early December. Those countries repre...

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Gender

Student To Discuss Gender Inequality At UN Panel

It’s no small feat to be selected to speak on a panel at the United Nations, yet that’s exactly what Maya Krishnan has accomplished. Krishnan, a senior studying...

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Gender

Is The Indian Working Woman Living In ‘Fool’s Paradise’ Where Her Salary Is Concerned?

Around 61% working Indian women have a perception that they earn the same salary as men doing the same work. However, if we glance through the World Economic Forum data, th...

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Festivals

Science Film Festival 2015 Promises To Be Bigger Than Ever?

With more than 100 venues hosting screenings and science activities from October 19 to December 9, the Science Film Festival promises to keep true to its claim of being the...

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Gender

Gender Equality And The Global Goals

Just over a week ago at the United Nations (UN), one hundred ninety-three countries adopted a new sustainable development agenda to tackle some of the world’s most pr...

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Health

Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of...

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Environment

Chile Launched The Largest Ocean Preserve In The Americas

The preserve protects the waters surrounding the Desventuradas Islands, which are two days? trip from the Chilean coast and home to many species that exist nowhere else. Fi...

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Hollywood

Christina Aguilera Helps Launch World Hunger Relief 2015 Campaign

Yum! Brands announced yesterday the launch of its annual World Hunger Relief effort featuring multi-Grammy Award winner and international superstar Christina Aguilera in a ...

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Environment

How Hydroelectric Power May Undermine Brazil's Pledge To Slash Greenhouse Gases

Brazil's new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive commitment that environmentalists have been clamoring f...

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