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Gender

Can We End Female Genital Cutting In A Generation?

Five years ago, over 3 million girls were at risk of undergoing female genital cutting, a process that involves the partial or complete removal of a girl’s external g...

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Health

Maternal Mortality On A Decline, But Challenges Remain

The number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks after birth has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, say United Nations agencies, including the...

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Health

Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...

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Trending

World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Mln Poor By 2030

Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the Wor...

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Sustainable Development

Amazon Will Never, Ever, Replace Libraries

“Amazon is aiming to create… spaces that are premised on books, but realized by community,” the author wrote. “The books here may be bought rather ...

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Gender

Overcoming Culture: Can India Eliminate Gender Violence?

Just over a month ago on September 25th, the 193 member countries of the United Nations voted on and approved the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the hop...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

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Environment

NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

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Hollywood

Shawn Mendes Exceeds Fundraising Goal To Build School In Ghana.

Singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes has announced that he exceeded his goal to raise $25,000 through his Represent Campaign to benefit Pencils of Promise (PoP). The “STITC...

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Health

What Works And What’s Missing In The New Global Goals

At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September, the U.N. officially launched the new global Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 associa...

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