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WATCH: The Story of International Adoption

Stuck is a new award-winning documentary film covering the real-life stories of children and parents navigating the international adoption system – a frequently tumultuous sea of bureaucratic and legal hazards in which famil...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Europe
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Vaccine Politics: Immunity Under Threat In The West

Last week we saw how the global drive to eradicate polio has suffered a serious setback due to the politicisation of vaccination efforts and prolonged violence in certain areas of the planet. However, it would be a mistake to a...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Asia
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UNICEF India Sounds the ‘Red Siren’ to #ENDviolence Against Children

A new social media campaign from UNICEF India is seeking to raise awareness and mobilize a collective effort to #ENDviolence against children, with special focus on sexual violence against girls. On 19 August 2013, UNICEF Ind...
by Aparna Ray
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Human Rights
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The ‘Let Toys be Toys’ Campaign: The fight to end “gendered” toy marketing

The issue of “gendered toys” has plagued the media recently as people are coming out on both sides of the debate to discuss why there seem to be only two aisles at toy stores: “girl’s toys” and “boy’s toys...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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Asia

WATCH: Pakistani TV Host Gives Away Babies on Primetime Ramadan Show

A TV presenter in Pakistan is under fire for giving away abandoned babies to childless couples on his hit religious quiz show. Televangelist Dr. Amir Liaquat Hussain has gifted two babies so far during the month of Ramadan, ...
by Salman Latif
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Africa

Kony 2014?

Nope, he’s not dead. Almost two years after the release of Jason Russell and Invisible Children’s “KONY 2012” video that made the Ugandan warlord a household name, Joseph Kony has reportedly reentered negotiations with ...
by Braden Harris
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Three Years On And No End In Sight For Syria

 March 15 marked the tragic third anniversary of the Syrian civil war, one which has already claimed the lives of approximately 130,000 Syrians and displaced millions, both internally and in neighboring countries. What has com...
by Tarek Shehab
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Think Muslims should apologise for acts of terrorism? This will change your mind

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting last month, there was a particularly worrying phenomenon building momentum in the West – the phenomenon that called for Muslims around the world to apologise for the terrorist att...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Asia

And The Nobel Peace Prize Goes To…

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani teenager and girls’ rights advocate, Malala Yousafzai, alongside Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. As most of us already know, Malala Yousa...
by Jamal Russell Black
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