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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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Festivals

The Football Film Festival

Attention sports fans: this ballsy festival is coming to Leichhardt!
When Stuart Meney isn’t coaching kids’ football, he’s supporting his premier lea...

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Hollywood

Gender Swaps: The Hollywood Films And TV Shows Swapping Male For Female Leads

An all-female Ghostbusters sequel was first revealed in January. Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel – Ghostbusters II in 1989 – both starred an all-male cast of...

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Bollywood

JIO MAMI 2015: Kangana Ranaut, Vidya Balan And Shabana Azmi Discuss Women's Role In Cinema.

On Tuesday, November 3rd, Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival brought together distinguished women from Indian and international cinema for an unique panel discussion about ...

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Environment

Nearly 40,000 Displaced After Cyclone Chapala Slams Into Yemen

The storm, with its extremely heavy rains and flooding, affected as many as 1.1 million people, and displaced more than 36,000, according to the United Nations Office for t...

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Festivals

Big Water Film Festival Expands For 2015

The eighth annual Big Water Film Festival promises to be bigger and better in 2015, bringing an eclectic collection of films from around the world to Ashland and Bayfield. ...

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Gender

India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...

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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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Environment

There’s a New Plan to Save Madagascar’s Lemurs From the Brink of Extinction.

Lemurs are unique to Madagascar and there are around 100 different species, but a 2014 report by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that nearly...

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Sustainable Development

Cities Are Overheating, And Cooling Them Off Will Be Risky

Taha is the president of Altrostratus, which developed California’s recently-published urban heat island index map. The map shows the areas most impacted by the urban...

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