Priorities

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of educa...

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The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violations...

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Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, which a...

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The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis.

The UN will launch its 2030 Sustainable Development agenda at the end of this month in New York City, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders after years o...

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Why More Mediators Should Be Women?

The significance of 2015 continently and globally in the drive for women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality provides a useful backdrop to assess effort...

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Why Tamil Nadu Is The Best State In India For New Mothers.

For decades, successive governments in this state have focused on improving healthcare access for pregnant women. Kayalvizhi Sundar, 25, beams as she comes out of the Governme...

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Why Tamil Nadu Is The Best State In India For New Mothers.

For decades, successive governments in this state have focused on improving healthcare access for pregnant women. Kayalvizhi Sundar, 25, beams as she comes out of the Governme...

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These Ecuadorians Want to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets

The villagers are trying to collect on a nearly $10 billion judgement by Ecuador's courts against Chevron, claiming they suffer from lingering health problems from toxic oil r...

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What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect evidence ...

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Twitter Promises To Hire More Women While Fighting Gender Discrimination Suit

Twitter is setting modest goals to diversify its workforce while it fights a proposed class-action lawsuit that says the online messaging service discriminates against its fem...

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TV: A JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Part 2 of Surabhi Diaries by filmmaker Suhail Tatari continues his vivid recollections f...

November 10 2025

BOLLYWOOD: HAQ AND THE PRICE OF A WOMAN’S VOICE

In 1978, Shah Bano, an elderly Muslim woman from Indore, filed a petition seeking mainte...

November 9 2025

FESTIVALS: THE POWER OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

At WIFF Mumbai 2025, a dynamic masterclass in collaboration with the Indo-Canadian Busin...

November 8 2025