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New York City Government Votes to Promote Intersex Rights

Last week, the New York City Council passed a bill mandating the city’s health department to develop educational materials about how so-called “normalizing” surgeries on children born with variations in their sex characteristics are medically unnecessary and risk lifelong harms.…

Corn by-product used to clean water

US researchers have found a way of recycling the by-product of corn and turning it into a material that helps clean water. About half the harvest — stalks, leaves, husks and cobs — remains as waste after the kernels have been…

India: Protect Rights, Dignity Amid Covid-19 Crisis

Click to expand Image Healthcare workers rushing with an oxygen cylinder at Jaipur Golden hospital where at least 25 Covid-19 patients died the previous night during an oxygen shortage, New Delhi, India, April 25, 2021. © 2021 Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/Sipa…