International Political Forum


 
 

 
Health

WATCH: Where’s the Controversy in Saving Lives?

Today, more than 200 million women in developing countries who don’t want to get pregnant lack access to contraceptives. This is a life and death crisis. Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death ...
by Natasha Lipman
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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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Human Rights

WATCH: The Fight for Food

Each year, an estimated one third of all food produced, an astounding 1.3 billion tonnes, ends up in bins and landfill sites, or is lost due to inadequate pre and post harvest techniques or poor transportation practice...
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Asia

WATCH: China’s Booming Appetite for Ivory, and What it Means for the Elephant

After hearing that last year alone, more than 12% of the world’s elephants were killed for their tusks, a team from National Geographic decided to make a special on the threats to the world’s largest land animal. Why is the...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Green

WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?

Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Video & Photography

WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

Jackson Katz PhD is an anti-sexist activist, filmmaker, author and educator. In this TED talk he discusses his “bystander approach” to eradicating sexist abuse, in which witnesses of abuse – and male ones in particular ...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Asia

WATCH: A Story of Humanity Amongst the Many Faces of Suffering

A new documentary, Zanta, produced by Beijing-based foreign correspondent Jocelyn Ford, has blurred the lines of politics, gender, religion and ethnicity that remain widely unrepresented in the sphere of mainstream media. Undis...
by Jessica Trevis
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Israel

WATCH: The Future Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Five Broken Cameras, a documentary nominated for the 2013 Oscars, has been acclaimed as the most successful video of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Perhaps equally as significant however was the footage of the documentary bei...
by Jessica Trevis
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Economy

WATCH: Putting Water Back in Public Hands

Defenders of privatisation argue that by opening a market to multiple suppliers who then compete to attract customers, you can reduce prices and improve product quality. But as any business student knows, markets don’t always...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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