Human Rights

Yuwa is hope

To be born a girl in Jharkhand, an Indian state about 700 miles southeast of New Delhi, often is to be sentenced to a life of poverty, illiteracy and violence. So when Franz G...

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Women In India Need Better Access To Contraception: UN Study

Due to a lack of access to information or services, or a lack of support from partners or communities, an estimated 225 million women globally are not using safe and effective...

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Festivities At Candolim Beach Await Wheelchair Users

Wheelchair users who haven't experienced Goa's beaches and waters will soon feel the wind in their hair and the sand in their toes. The first of its kind wheelchair accessible...

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Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts sai...

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Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. Chi...

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Human Rights Rankings: No Perfect Company

The rankings don’t make for a pretty picture and quite validate the purpose of Corporate Human Rights Benchmark The first Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) ranking...

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Human Rights Rankings: No Perfect Company

The first Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) ranking for 2017 is finally out. This next big thing in global human rights tracking is well on its way: it hasn’t pull...

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Why A 106-Year-Old Event Is Still Relevant In 2017

Women won't be coming to work. That's what Americans may think that International Women's Day means this year. The event, which has been celebrated for 106 years, has no singl...

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Child Rights Commission Demands Implementation Of Supreme Court Rules On School Buses

Concerned about the increasing number of deaths of children in school bus accidents, the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) at a meeting with...

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One In Five Believe Women Inferior To Men: Global Survey

One in five people around the world believe women are inferior to men and should stay at home, and that men are more capable in the workplace and at school, according to a glo...

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GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024

POWERFUL PEOPLE: USHA UTHUP - THE QUEEN OF POP

Celebrating Usha Uthup’s five-decade journey as a musical trailblazer, cultural am...

November 21 2024