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Women's rights, we can roll back he horrors that have happened, thatten moos putting rapists in women's prisons and that has happened in california. >> ashley: talk about fairness, not just young girls, women in general, they are afraid to speak up when it comes to the female sports issue. you have the microphone, what would you say for young women and women in general who are scared to say anything because of what is going to happen and the pushback they are going to get? >> yeah, thanks. two things. one thing, every single human being on the face of the planet, all eight billion of us are fe...

Eight billion likes, you know. next level jackpot if you find aliens. like i don't think they're keeping us under -- you know, it was like some general, i think in the 60s, they were saying like show us the aliens, like area 51, et cetera. and you said, like, listen we are constantly trying to get the defense budget to expand and you know what would really get no arguments from anyone? if we pull out an alien and said we need money to protect ourselves from these guys. how much money do you want? you got it. they look dangerous. so the fastest way to get a defense budget increase would be to p...

While India shows exceptional promise due to a massive younger populace, China continues to fare better in terms of life expectancy. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

Well, i think any kind of population milestone, demographic milestone, whether it's reaching eight billion as we did last november or whether it's india taking over china, it does kind of, it makes people nervous. it leads to this kind of demographic anxiety, as we call it in the report. but what we're trying to point out is that often it's not the population numbers that are the issue. the issues are many other structural factors that we need to look at. so, in fact, it's not the fertility rates. there is no ideal population number, but population numbers do matter in the sense that we need t...

Of this demographic milestone to really try to change the narrative, to work with countries to ensure that they are implementing rights based policies based on evidence. because we know, in fact, that just by trying to incentivise women to have more babies, we've seen in many countries all over the world, it just doesn't work. what does work is when we understand the underlying determinants of why women are not having children, and that is often the inability of women to be able to combine their work life with their family life. so really investing in gender sensitive family policies is a much...