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Philanthropy Power Duo: How Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson Have Raised $150M With Hollywood Charity Game Changer

In 2009, producer Shauna Robertson was capping off a string of box-office hits that included The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Super bad when she decided, at the age o...

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Bollywood

Mumbai Women film fest back with season two

Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF) is back with second edition with an aim to promote female filmmakers and provide them an international platform. Th...

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Sustainable Development

At 240 million, India has a third of child marriages in the world

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) report said 720 million women around the world, alive today, were married before 18 years compared to 156 million men...

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Bollywood

Only Four Per Cent of Indian Company Directors Are Women

Only four percent of the directors of publicly listed Indian companies are women, but a landmark law passed last year means companies must act quickly to put more women on ...

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Environment

First summit on women and climate decries lack of grassroots funding

BALI, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A global summit on women and climate, the first of its kind, opened on Sunday, bringing together some 80 activists work...

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Hollywood

Freida Pinto Attends Girl Summit

Freida Pinto joined the UK government’s first ever Girl Summit on Tuesday 22 July to tackle violence against girls around the world. The Slumdog Millionaire star repr...

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Sustainable Development

India can increase GDP by more than a quarter by giving more women jobs

The rate of India’s female graduates entering the workforce is lower than the rate of illiterate women finding a job. India ranks the second lowest in the Group of 20...

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Hollywood

New role for Geena Davis: Getting Hollywood to fairly portray girls

Google Geena Davis and up pops the pose that established her as half of the “first selfie.” The iconic frame from “Thelma & Louise” was reprised...

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Hollywood

Demi Lovato Talks Girl Power in Behind-the-Scenes Video

Demi Lovato recently graced the cover of Seventeen Magazine — looking amazing, as always — and now there’s a behind-the-scenes peek at her fun and colorfu...

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Hollywood

Will 2014 Be a Breakthrough Year for Women Directors at the Academy Awards?

In 86 years, only four women have been nominated for a best director Oscar. Only one, Kathryn Bigelow, has won. Lina Wertmuller was the first woman nominated for the 1976 f...

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