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El Salvador: Women Face Imprisonment If They Miscarry

Imagine that you are a woman in El Salvador and suffer a miscarriage, there is a chance that you may be jailed up to 50 years for aggravated homicide.

by Isabela Vrba

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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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Timbuktu and the Northern Mali conflict

It not entirely an accident that Timbuktu is a colloquialism for any faraway place. The intricately complex conflict in Northern Mali is one that seems even more remote from our comprehension than other modern armed conflicts. ...

by Will Perry Evans

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The ‘Invisible’ Scar, Crime

I wrote a Facebook update asking my friends to share on what to do in the event of rape. And, Moraa Osoro a pal wrote in caps: REPORT. REPORT. REPORT. Adding, “If it is not reported, it never happened.” The last bit was p...

by Eunice Kilonzo

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WATCH: One Step Closer to a Cure for Cancer?

At age 5, Emma Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Two years ago it looked like the disease would kill her; she had relapsed twice after chemotherapy and all conventional treatments had failed. This extr...

by Richard Scott-Jones

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A Graduate Had an Idea That Changed A Country

Founded in 2009, PING (Positive Innovation for the Next Generation) is a youth-led organisation based in Gaborone, Botswana aiming to use technology in creating and educating the next generation of problem solvers. In the summe...

by Kayleigh Board

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Fukushima and the health impact of Japan’s nuclear policy

More than three years have passed since Japan’s now-infamous nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi experienced a meltdown following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011.

by Abbie Saunders

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The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...

by Brandon Engel

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Battling The Autism Stigma This October

October is Autism Awareness Month. And I think it’s important that we take a few minutes to think about that. Being a child can be difficult. Not one of us can say we had an entirely easy childhood, free of bullying and p...

by Priyanka Mogul

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El Salvador: Women Face Imprisonment If They Miscarry

Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Timbuktu and the Northern Mali conflict

The ‘Invisible’ Scar, Crime

WATCH: One Step Closer to a Cure for Cancer?

A Graduate Had an Idea That Changed A Country

Fukushima and the health impact of Japan’s nuclear policy

The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

Battling The Autism Stigma This October

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