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Gender

Learn About Challenges For Women With Disabilities

Last week, actress and feminist powerhouse Emma Watson made waves in the media after announcingthat she would be taking a year off of acting for “personal development&rd...

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Health

Immunisation: A Powerful Piece Of The Equality Puzzle

In 2016, girls and women are still more likely to miss out when it comes to the advances of global development: going to school, getting well paid for their work or representi...

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Human Rights

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s bee...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Fisheries – An Emerging New Normal?

Last month I had the pleasure of attending a ‘trilogue’ organized by the European Commission for policymakers, scientists and the private sector on the subject of ...

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Environment

Nanotechnology To Play Key Role In Health & Environment Issues’

Nanotechnology is poised to play a key role in the spheres of health, food production, food preservation and all environment and security-related issues, a noted scientist on ...

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Festivals

Manchester Film Festival Diaries

After receiving my press pass and having made acquaintance with two film directors from New York and Sydney on my way, I found out that I only had one hour left to get ready f...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan And Harbhajan Lend Their Support For Juhu Marathon In Mumbai

More than 1,500 participants, among them serious runners, fitness enthusiasts and first-timers, will hit the streets on March 13 at the inaugural ParineeJuhu 10K Run. The mara...

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Hollywood

George And Amal Clooney Share Stories With Syrian Refugees

Ahead of today’s fifth anniversary of the Syria conflict, the International Rescue Committee Organized a meeting between Georgeand Amal Clooney and three Syrian refugee ...

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Trending

Teacher Wins $1-M Prize For Peace Lessons

A primary school teacher from a refugee camp in conflict-torn Palestine has won $1-million Global Teacher Prize for educating her students about non-violence, beating nine oth...

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Gender

20 Women In Hollywood Making A Difference From Behind The Camera

The fight for gender equality will always seem to inevitably fall in front of the camera, so starkly visible amongst its onscreen heroines and celebrity actors. But, to bring ...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: JUST DO IT

In a conversation, Khalid Mohamed draws out the eventful life and film adventures of wri...

November 11 2025

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