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Better Hand-Washing Through Technology
Why can’t hospitals get health care workers to wash their hands?Hospitals in the United States enjoy access to running water. Virtually all of them have alcohol-rub disp...
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India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law
India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Rights W...
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A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying For The Right To Repair Everything
Repair groups from across the industry announced that they have formed The RepairCoalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the Digital Millennium C...
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The US Wants To Make Oil, Gas, And Mining Companies More Transparent About Their Deals
Environmentalists and transparency activists are feuding with energy and mining interests over a proposed US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation that would req...
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What Happened To These Young Girls From Bastar
Little did the girls imagine that the quiet slip out of the safe haven of their homes would end in tragedy? Between June to August last year, 12 girls, aged between 12 and 20,...
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PCPNDT Act Has Adequate Teeth, Say Experts
PCPNDT Act, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques, National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights, Common Health, CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into hea...
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Ending Child Marriage
Sharon J.’s marriage at age 14 in Tanzania dashed her hopes for the future: “My dream was to study to be a journalist. Until today, when I watch news or listen to ...
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Instead Of Killing Mosquitoes, Why Don’t We Edit The Viruses Out Of Them?
In the fight against zika—the mosquito-spread virus recently declared an international public health emergency due to its potential link with a brain deformity in infant...
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'War Of The Woods’ Over A Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With A Peace Agreement
The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 85 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches throu...
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Woman Can Be ‘Karta' Of A Family: Delhi High Court Gives Landmark Judgement
Every time someone mentions 'karta' in the context of an Indian family, you immediately think of a male member. That just changed in a landmark ruling by the Delhi High court ...
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