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A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

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Human Rights

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Raja...

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Human Rights

More Than 40 Percent Of India's Women Confined To Domestic Work, Report Says

Women are among the most excluded groups in India, with almost 43 percent of working-age women confined to domestic work, while many who do work outside the home face explo...

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Human Rights

Do Children Have A Right To Be Loved?

Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. The 1989 Declaration on the Rig...

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Human Rights

2.5 Billion People At Risk Of Hunger And Poverty If Land Rights Are Not Protected

Indigenous peoples and local communities protect half the world's land, but formally own just 10 percent, according to a report released today by a global alliance of NGOs....

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Human Rights

Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.
Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said &...

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Festivals

‘I View World’ film festival makes Delhi debut

Engendered, a trans-national arts and human rights organisation that has been organising the “I View World” film festival in New York for the past several years...

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Human Rights

Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.
The victims, nearly all of them...

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Human Rights

Malnutrition, Alcoholism In Tribal Madhya Pradesh Get Baneebai Cure

At first glance, her profile hardly looks newsworthy — a young woman of the poor Bhilala tribe in Madhya Pradesh; a high school dropout.But BaneebaiNingwal has the re...

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Hollywood

Actress Emma Watson Focused On Gender Equality Issues Los Angeles

The British actress Emma Watson stands today for her willingness to make greater efforts in order to promote gender equality and women''s empowerment, which is why she will...

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