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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development goals: eight ways to make reality match ambition

Next year, governments will agree a new global development framework of breathtaking ambition. We already know the likely shape of the sustainable development goals (SDGS) ...

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Sustainable Development

Women?s empowerment key to ending violence

DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka UNDER the banner “Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women” Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending vio...

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Bollywood

Groupon India partners with UNICEF and Kareena Kapoor Khan to raise funds for promoting quality education for children in India

UNICEF, has announced its partnership with Groupon, a daily deals site, to raise funds for promoting quality education for children in India. UNICEF India Celebrity Advocat...

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Hollywood

Reese Witherspoon Takes On Hollywood Sexism

Reese Witherspoon is mad, ‘really mad’, but exactly how is Hollywood’s sweetheart tackling sexism on the big screen? She’s taken matters into her ow...

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Sustainable Development

Rickshaw drivers take 'respect for women' message to Delhi's streets

Delhi rickshaw driver Narotan Singh was never interested in the problems faced by women and girls – his only interaction with the opposite sex was with females from h...

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Health

UN Members Resolve To End Child Marriage

There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday. There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday...

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Hollywood

Hilary Swank urges more compelling roles for women in Hollywood

Actress laments the gap in both pay and opportunity for women seeking challenging roles in cinema. During an interview before students at Loyola Marymount University School...

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Sustainable Development

Why the Delhi Metro needs to get rid of the ladies compartment

Having a women’s compartment is actually reinforcing the idea that men are entitled to the majority of the space. There are plenty of reasons to take the ladies compa...

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Sustainable Development

Gender inequality undermining India’s progress: report

Deep-rooted gender inequalities continue to undermine India’s potential to translate economic growth into inclusive development, according to a government report whic...

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Sustainable Development

Uruguay urges rooting new sustainable development agenda in human rights

The basis of a new sustainable development agenda must be poverty eradication, rooted in a strong foundation of human rights and recognition of rights, Uruguay’s Fore...

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