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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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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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North America

WATCH: Charity – Who Cares what the Overhead is if These Problems Are Getting Solved?

In a fascinating TED Talk, activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta dissects the problems faced by the non-profit sector in the USA – many of which apply elsewhere in the West. His goal is to change our thinking about charitable ...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Video & Photography

WATCH: The Danger of a Single Story

Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, sheds a piece of wisdom that is sadly not echoed more frequently to individuals, media and communities all over the world. It is the misunderstanding that fuels war, fear, isolation and ...
by Jessica Trevis
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