Human Rights
Human Rights

India Abstains At UN Vote On LGBT Independent Expert

India avoided taking a position on the need to end discrimination based on sexual orientation at the Human Rights Council of the UN, as the Supreme Court is yet to “pron...

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UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual or...

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Where Does Moral Courage Come From?

Readers of Fixes know that our primary mission each week is to highlight strategies that work to effect social change and improve lives. In her column last week, Tina Rosenber...

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Campaigning To Make India’s Roads Safer

Nine years ago, Piyush Tewari was managing operations in India for a Los Angeles-based private equity firm when tragedy struck his family. While returning home from school in ...

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UN Human Rights Council: Using Sport And The Olympic Ideal To Promote Human Rights For All, Including Persons With Disabilities

For more than a decade, Human Rights Watch has documented human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events, or MSEs, such as the Olympics, football’s World Cup, Formul...

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Living With Energy Poverty

If you can read this, you probably have access to affordable and reliable electricity all day, every day. 1.4 billion people around the world don’t. We need to address t...

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The World Bank Should Champion Human Rights

Much of the evidence supporting the emerging consensus that strong human rights safeguards promote and enhance development has come out of research from the World Bank. Yet th...

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Kenya: Children's Rights Theme Dominates Nairobi Primary Schools Music Festival

As the Nairobi City County Primary Schools Music Festival draws to a close, pupils have used the platform to highlight the violence that children face at home and in school, w...

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How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownership o...

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Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After havi...

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TRENDING: AFFORDABLE TAILORING THIS FESTIVAL SEASON BY SURVIVORS OF #GBV

Budget-friendly stitching services for kids and women across India, crafted by survivors...

September 29 2024

POLITICS: GLOBAL INDIFFERENCE AND DOMESTIC POLICIES DRIVE DIVISIVE AGENDAS

"The relentless violence of war and communal strife continues to plague innocent lives, ...

September 28 2024

FESTIVALS: A CELEBRATION OF INDIAN CINEMA

Whistling Woods International's Celebrate Cinema 2024: An Immersive Festival Where 5000 ...

September 27 2024