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Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuild their lives.
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Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what ‘peace’ really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle and sacrifice of those who work for it.
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What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: “they need our help” in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed and how her work with micro loans has brought new power to people who live on a […]
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In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. Jane Chen shows us an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm, a design that’s safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.
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Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t ‘act like a man’. Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the ‘man box’.
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