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Opinion: Integrating Water, Sanitation And Health Are Key To The Promise Of The UN Global Goals

AMMAN, Oct 30 2015 (IPS) – The 193 member states of the United Nations have adopted an ambitious 15-year sustainable development agenda, the 2030 Global Goals To unde...

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Environment

A Huge Fire In The Amazon Threatens Thousands Of Indigenous People And An Uncontacted Tribe

The Arariboia indigenous territory is home to an estimated 12,000 people belonging to the Guajajara ethnic group, and to another 80 Aw?-Guaj? Indians, not previously contac...

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Sustainable Development

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

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Festivals

Guillermo Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak' Opens Morelia Film Festival

On Friday, the Morelia Film Fest kicked off its presentation of 55 short subjects, 12 documentaries, 13 works by filmmakers from Michoacan state, and 10 feature films by di...

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Health

The Breast Milk Elixir

Current estimates backed by the World Health Organization and Unicef are that optimal breast-feeding would save 800,000 children’s lives a year in developing countrie...

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Environment

These Nations Might Have The Most To Lose With A Global Climate Deal

So far, more than 120 countries have made detailed pledges for reducing emissions to the United Nations before the Paris conference in early December. Those countries repre...

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Health

How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles ...

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Fashion

Salim Asgarally Silver Sale! 4 Days Remaining!

Beginning on the 12th to the 20th October, Salim Asgarally offers a flat 50% discount on the spectrum of Merchandise and Apparel ranging f...

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Health

Bridging The Digital Divide: UP’s Frontline Health Workers Go ‘Smart’

LUCKNOW: In an effort to strengthen data-keeping of rural health indices in UP, the state government will train over 12,000 frontline health workers to report, in real-time...

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Gender

Advice For Aspiring Female Tech Entrepreneurs: A Perspective From The Developing World

It is an open secret that women are outsiders when it comes to tech entrepreneurship, both in the developed and developing economies. In 1984, 37 percent of undergraduate c...

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