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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) has sounded the alarm that one in four FGM procedures are now medicalised amounting to over 50 million women and girls being subjected to FGM by health care providers. It is suggested that healthcare practitioners may be erroneously performing medicalised FGM for several reasons, including: to legitimise FGM to fit in as members of...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...worlds, it is essential to understand why hair matters to them’ (Bank, 2004). For the vast majority of Black women and girls, hair is not just hair; it contains emotive qualities that are linked to one’s lived experience and identification. Historically, hair has held significant roles in traditional African societies, including being a part of some language and...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...World-changing women: Download your free booklet of postcards. 2: Alexander Fleming - discoverer of penicillin Transcript Who'd have thought this guy would've saved millions of people with some accidentally discovered 'mould juice'?! Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881, was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best-known for discovering the antibiotic...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...world from droughts, floods and storms is 93% lower than it was in the 1920s is not because the climate’s got less dangerous in that time; droughts, floods and storms are probably just as common as they were then. It’s because people got richer, they got better sheltered, better transport, better communication, all these kind of things. So when a hurricane hits a...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...world’s first mobile phone recycling scheme to comply with all legislation. Over 18 million phones each year were being replaced in the UK around 2000 and without opportunities for reuse and recycling would have probably gone as potentially hazardous waste to landfill. In Fonebak’s first two years of operation (2002– 04) the company processed 3.5 million mobile...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...world", perhaps even the whole world. Unfortunately, as organizations who actively and authentically participate in the development of software distributed with an Open Source Initiative (OSI) Approved License reap the business, economic, operational, and technical benefits as well as garner public accolades and increased profile from that success, “openwashing”...
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Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...world lays to rest such a naive assumption. Politics under any system of government is always a dirty business. But the Athenian political system is tied particularly closely to our own because it was – I’m tempted to say first and foremost – a spectator sport. Much of the time, meetings of the Athenian Assembly resembled an explosive televised debate, as...
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Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...world, high-profile actors have worn black to demonstrate solidarity and highlight the work of anti-violence activists on the red carpet as their plus ones. The Time’s Up movement aims to translate this awareness into practical support for all survivors, including a legal fund for working-class women to fight for equality and justice. Given all this airtime, various...
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