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10 December Dec 2015 0840 10 December 2015 Big Tobacco targets poor countries
According to a new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the prevalence of smoking is falling in richer nations, but increasing in many middle and low income countries. As a result, the tobacco industry have increasingly marketed their products in developing countries and emerging economies, and they target young people the most
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9 December Dec 2015 1545 09 December 2015 London collective Assemble win the Turner Prize
Assemble are the first collective to have won the Turner Prize: the UK's most important and prestigious visual art prize, which was awarded in Glasgow on the 7th of December. Assemble are a group of 18 young architects and designers (all under 30) working at the intersection of art, architecture and design.
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25 November Nov 2015 1147 25 November 2015 22% of women experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner
The EPP Group committed to strong punishment for attackers. "The situation is critical and requires collective awareness” said Constance Le Grip MEP, EPP Group Spokeswoman in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee of the European Parliament, speaking on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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24 November Nov 2015 1413 24 November 2015 Lux Film prize awards Turkish young women who break tradition
Today Mustang won the 2015 European Parliament LUX Prize for cinema in Strasbourg. The movie pictures five sisters fighting for their independence and unwilling to give up to partiarchal tradition.
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19 November Nov 2015 1812 19 November 2015 Those revolving doors ensuring EU institutions stay close to Big Energy
Conflicts of interest in the field of energy and climate policy are being ignored by EU institutions, allowing some of the world’s biggest polluters to potentially benefit from the know-how and contact books of top Brussels insiders, according to a new report.
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18 November Nov 2015 1702 18 November 2015 Booxup, the app for printed book sharing
With Booxup everyone can share their books for free with the booxist community and have access to millions of books around the world, in 20 languages.
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17 November Nov 2015 1527 17 November 2015 Boosting youth employment and inclusion in Europe
The European Commission and business leaders partner up to support the creation of 10.000 quality business-education partnerships, with the shared target to establish together at least 100,000 new good quality apprenticeships, traineeships or entry-level jobs.
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13 November Nov 2015 1538 13 November 2015 Amartya Sen: Public policy needs to change
At a recent lecture at the London School of Economics, Nobel Prize winning economist and Harvard Professor Amartya Sen presents "The Country of First Boys": a collection of 13 essays written over 15 years.
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9 November Nov 2015 1751 09 November 2015 Syrian Refugee Children Encountering Significant Trauma and Schooling Disruptions Prior to Resettlement
Forty percent of the more than 4 million Syrian refugees who have fled Syria since civil war began in 2011 are under the age of 12, with many encountering substantial schooling disruptions that will affect their learning once resettled, according to a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
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5 November Nov 2015 1122 05 November 2015 In the bathroom doorway
The doubt faced by a young man who is son of a culture in which the victory of religion as an ideology has led to the destruction of any possibility to practice religion on his own terms, and on the on the other hand, he lives according to the dictates of a Western world in which the defeat of religion as ideology has led to the marginalization of religious practice from public life.