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Prince Charles's Bahrain Visit 'Backs Human Rights Abuses', Says Activist And Torture Survivor

A Bahraini human rights activist and torture survivor claims Prince Charles's visit to the Arab kingdom is being used to "whitewash" its record on civil liberties.
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Hollywood

Kevin Nealon To Host Farm Sanctuary 30th Anniversary Gala

Farm Sanctuary, with co-chairs, Tracey Stewart and Emily Deschanel, will host their annual Gala at the renowned Beverly Wilshire Hotel on November 12th to celebrate 30 year...

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Hollywood

Elton John AIDS Foundation Raises Over $3.15 Million At 15th Annual An Enduring Vision Benefit Gala

On Wednesday, November 2, 2016, the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) raised more than $3.15 million at its 15th annual An Enduring Vision benefit gala to support HIV/AIDS ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Broadway Artists Are Aligning To Make Social And Political Change

The Broadway Advocacy Coalition is a new platform for artists to speak up and fuse arts with activism. Following the August 1 Broadway for Black Lives Matter event, in whic...

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Human Rights

In Telangana, It Takes A Village To Update Tattered Land Records

KONGARAGIDDA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of ...

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Alternative Entertainment

The United Nations Is Turning VR Into A Tool For Social Change

Virtual reality is lauded as an empathy generator. The ability to transport viewers to a setting that would otherwise be inaccessible, or even unfathomable, lends a sense o...

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Health

Bangladesh Teens Stop Child Marriage

Adolescent girls in Bangladesh face severe threats to their health: Two-thirds marry by age 18, and a third of girls are mothers before age 20. A national network of teen g...

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Environment

Bayer's Takeover Of Monsanto Would Create The World's Largest Agricultural Supplier

Anti-GMO activists are horrified at the prospect of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer purchasing American agrochemical company Monsanto, a proposed consolidation the activi...

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Hollywood

Katie Couric: My Life As A Cancer Advocate

Her unanticipated journey as a cancer advocate is the subject of a personal essay by Katie Couric published online in The American Journal of Gastroenterology(AJG) to coinc...

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Health

First-Of-Its-Kind Blog Series Spreads Message Of Hope For Women With Postpartum Depression

More common than diabetes during pregnancy, depression affects one in seven women who are pregnant or have recently had a baby. The often unrecognized and unmet mental heal...

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