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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...

by Tithe Farhana

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Cost Of Obesity Epidemic Comparable To That Of Smoking And War: But What Should Be Done About It?

A newly published report shows the soaring economic costs of obesity, but reflection on this growing ailment of contemporary society requires us to fundamentally assess the role of the state before it is clear what ought to be ...

by Kishan Koria

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And When The Carnival Is Over…

From Copacabana to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil is a country known for its cultural richness and is a growing international player in the economic field yet still lacks political and social coherence. I used my time in Rio de Ja...

by Catarina Santos

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50Days4Gaza: Declining health in the Gaza strip

Following 2014’s 50 day siege between Israel and Palestine, health and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza strip have quickly declined. Only last month 25 representatives from the United Nations gathered in Jerusalem to p...

by Abbie Saunders

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WATCH: What is the “Zambulance”?

How do you get an ambulance to someone in need on dirt roads in the middle of Africa? Well, a Zambulance. Most people never consider the incredible logistics behind the ambulance system in the industrialized world, or just take...

by Conor Sullivan

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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...

by Tiffany Brittingham

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Sexual Assault: Get The Picture?

More than 2,000 images of sexual assault survivors holding posters with quotes from their attackers have been posted on Project Unbreakable since its launch in October 2011. These powerful pictures do not only help survivors of...

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World Cancer Awareness Day 2015

The beginning of 2015 was pointedly marked by Dr Richard Smith’s comment that cancer is the best way to die.The comment met with extraordinary backlash from researchers, charities, and the families and friends of those th...

by Abbie Saunders

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Holy Crap: How Haiti’s Human Waste is Being Used For the Better

The earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti – since then it has perpetually struggled to re-build itself and for those that have chosen to keep an eye on this impoverished Island we have seen few success stories. Corruption,...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Cost Of Obesity Epidemic Comparable To That Of Smoking And War: But What Should Be Done About It?

And When The Carnival Is Over…

50Days4Gaza: Declining health in the Gaza strip

WATCH: What is the “Zambulance”?

Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Sexual Assault: Get The Picture?

World Cancer Awareness Day 2015

Holy Crap: How Haiti’s Human Waste is Being Used For the Better

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