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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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Alternative Entertainment

Local Electro Chill-Pop Artist Diaspoura Creates Her Own Narrative With Demonstrations

Anjali Naik's rural South Carolina upbringing was different from that of anyone else she knew. "My dad's from Africa and my mom's from India, so I'm first-generation Americ...

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JIO MAMI Film Club With STAR's Second Event Is The Indian Premiere Of ‘Brahman Naman’, A Film By Q, On June 27th At 9pm, PVR ICON

Mumbai, June, 2016: As a part of its year round activities, the Jio MAMI Film Club with Star announces their second event-The Indian Premiere of Q’s Brahman Naman. Af...

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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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Health

Using Social Media to Prevent Adolescent Suicide

Distraught over a poor grade that she thought would ruin her life, the honor-roll student broadcast her suicide for anyone to see. Hours later, she was in the inpatient psy...

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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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Festivals

New York Asian Film Festival Is Having A Southeast Asian Moment

At the New York Asian Film Festival, Asian film means movies mostly from the continent’s Big Three: Japan, South Korea and the Chinese-language cinemas of Hong Kong, ...

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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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