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Sport

WATCH: Nelson Mandela Believes Sport has the Power to Change the World

Nelson Mandela once said that “Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Spor...
by Natasha Lipman
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Europe
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WATCH: The Big Racism Experiment

The lazy, ignorant Blue Eyes vs. the superior Brown Eyes Thirty unsuspecting young people enter an old factory-like building. They signed up to participate in a TV-show without any prior knowledge about its content. Soon enough...
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Human Rights

WATCH: Does HIV look like me? The stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS

How would you react if someone told you they were HIV positive? Would you treat them the same as any other person? Would you still hug them without thinking twice? Would you take a sip from their glass of coke? Or would you su...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Asia

WATCH: Rape – It’s Time To Stop Blaming The Victim

As rape cases continue to rise in India, and the number of comments blaming the victims for these rapes rises even faster, one has to wonder what it’s going to take for even the country’s top politicians and governm...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Human Rights

WATCH: This is What Torture Really Looks Like

As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for fo...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights

WATCH: The NO Project

“Now You Know” is the latest film for the NO Project, an initiative that taps the artistic skills of young people to raise awareness about human trafficking, with the goal of changing the behaviour that supports it. The fi...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Animal Rights
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WATCH: We are all Earthlings

“Three primary forces exist on this planet – nature, animals, and human kind. However, it is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects...
by Adriana De Sousa Calado
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Asia

WATCH: Google Shows Us How To Unite India And Pakistan In Just Three Minutes

For years, tensions between India and Pakistan have remained hostile. It seems that the people of both countries have entirely erased from their memories a time when they were one – no boundaries, no conflicts, just one c...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Health

WATCH: One Incredible Doctor Provides Safety & Healthcare to 90,000 Displaced People

For her lifetime dedication to providing safety and healthcare to 90,000+ internally displaced persons at her camp in Somalia, Dr. Hawa Abdi was honored with the 2013 Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards’ Fern Holland Aw...
by Natasha Lipman
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