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Why Are Women Worldwide Not Using Contraceptives—Even Though They Don’t Want A Pregnancy?

Significant numbers of women worldwide don't use birth control due to fears of side effects, negative beliefs about contraception, and because they don't think they need it...

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Festivals

It’s time for the Jewish Film Festival

It’s the 18th year of the annual Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, a number that promises luck for movie lovers. The festival, which runs from December 24 to 29 at the ...

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Sustainable Development

France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail

Who needs mailmen when you've got drones? That's what France thinks, anyway. The French postal service is beginning an experimental drone delivery program to deliver parcel...

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Health

The Sterilisation Skew

Sterilisation is simpler in men than women — recovery time and surgical risk are smaller, complications are rare and deaths rarer. Yet, as the national ‘Vasecto...

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Gender

This 16-Year-Old Is Changing Attitudes & Promoting Better Sanitation In The Slums Of Mumbai

For an outsider who steps into the slums of Govandi East for the first time, the smell that hits them first. Next they are greeted by the sight of open drainage lines that ...

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Hollywood

Constance Zimmer Plants Local Garden With #Greenmyschool Program

Birds Eye frozen vegetables continues its partnership with Environmental Media Association's (EMA) “#Greenmyschool” program with a garden planting by Constance ...

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Hollywood

BAFTA Los Angeles Launches Access For All Campaign

BAFTA LA announced last week the launch of its Access for All campaign, a commitment to ensuring that talented individuals are offered a clear pathway to careers in the ent...

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Health

Foot Soldiers Of India’s National Health Program, Here’s How Much An Asha Worker Makes

Foot soldiers of the National Rural Health Mission, these women health activists risk their well-being to keep villagers healthy. It’s perhaps time the Accredited Soc...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Delivers Petition Calling For Mauritius To Stop Dog Cruelty

This week, actor and animal advocate Pamela Anderson – accompanied by rescued dog Zorro – hand-delivered a 179,000-name petition to the High Commission of Mauri...

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Human Rights

Programmes For Children Have To Take Centre-Stage In National Policy-Making: Pranab Mukherjee

President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said programmes and actions for children have to take centre-stage in national policy-making, adding that there should be commitment ...

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