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It's 2017! Why Do Women Still Need To Fight For Their Rights

It’s 2017! And just last week I was reading about how the Indian censor board of film certification has refused to certify a women empowerment film “Lipstick un...

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Human Rights

India Urged To Build Housing Law On Human Rights

India needs a housing law that is rooted in human rights as bulging cities and rising inequality make housing unaffordable for ever more people, according to a United Natio...

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Sustainable Development

Village Of Bachelors Carves Out A Road To Welcome Its First Bride

On the last day of February this year, Ajay Kumar Yadav brought his bride home to a hero’s welcome. That is because, Neetu, his wife, was the first to marry someone f...

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Hollywood

Britney Spears Designed New Fragrance To Empower Women

Singer Britney Spears says that her latest perfume Fantasy makes women feel "empowered, flirtatious and sexy". Spears says she loves making new scents because she believes ...

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Human Rights

Reform Hold The Key To Cut Litigation In India Land Deals, Say Analysts

The process of land acquisition in India has been the source of increasing political and legal contestation for almost 200 years, says the Land Rights Initiative Reforms to...

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Gender

California Becomes First State To Enact Gender-Neutral Bathroom Law

A new law allowing any gender to use any single-user bathrooms in California begins today. Capital Public Radio Health Care Reporter Ja'Nel Johnson has more on who will be ...

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Human Rights

Growing Child Labour In India's Cities Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Say Activists

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children - many under nine years of age - in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and labouri...

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Environment

Watching Birds Near Home Eases Sadness & Worries

Watching birds around your home may help overcome sadness and worry, a new study in UK has found. Researchers from the University of Exeter in UK, the British Trust for Orn...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Chhattisgarh Farmer Took It Upon Himself To Educate Visually-Challenged Children

Barun Kumar Pradhan may be a farmer, but for the people in his village in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, he is no ordinary man. Through a free residential school, Pradhan has been ...

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Human Rights

Revised National Building Code Should Bring Down Barriers For The Disabled

It struck a disparate note with the country’s 26.8 million disabled. On February 12, the very day the Indian cricket team was making us proud by winning the Blind Wor...

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