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Human Rights

These Kids Are Saving Others From A Life Of Child Slavery

In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help(UTS...

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Human Rights

These Kids In India Are Saving Others From A Life Of Child Slavery.

In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help (UT...

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Sustainable Development

Domestic Help Starts School For 60 Kids From Slums In Ranchi

Suchita’s mother met with an accident a few months ago, because of which she had to take up odd jobs to support her family. In January this year, she started a makesh...

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Human Rights

Mumbai: Child Rights Body Unveils Rs 1000 Crore Plan To Transform Lives

Plan India, one of the major global child rights organisations, aims to invest Rs 1000 crore in programmes to improve the lives of millions of children over the next five y...

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Festivals

Kenya Film Festival Aims To 'Change Story' Of Slums

Hundreds of movie lovers gathered in front of a giant outdoor screen in Nairobi’s Mathare slum on Monday at the start of the Slum Film Festival, which aims to challen...

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Sustainable Development

Mumbai’s Smart Slum

Urban is the new norm, and as many cities expand in the developing world, so do their slums. Nowhere is this more apparent than Dharavi, the largest and most renowned infor...

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Health

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Festivals

Bappi Da?s Slumstars To Woo San Francisco

Bappi Lahiri is a legend in his own right, a man who has reinvented himself over four decades and is still going strong. He will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Awa...

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Bollywood

KJo, Farah Win On SRK's Show, To Donate Prize Money For Women's Empowerment

Be it walking the ramp at a charity fashion show or performing at concerts, Bollywood celebrities proactively participate in charitable endeavours. And the recent shining e...

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Sustainable Development

Rising from the shadow of abuse

For the last one year — along with the usual urban viewers who come to attend shows of The Vagina Monologues (a critically-acclaimed production by noted playwright Ev...

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