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India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Hollywood

Human Rights Campaign Announces Honorees For 2016 La Gala Dinner

On Saturday, March 19, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, will honor critical...

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Gender

Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Human Rights

Traditional Aranmula Mirror Artisans Fight For Their Rights

Traditional artisans who craft the 'Aranmulakannadi', a unique handmade metal-alloy mirror are upset over fake groups claiming right over the mirror, even trying for obtain...

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Human Rights

Kids Raise Rights Issues In Children's Parliament

Suman Prasad, a class IX student from Tangra is a feisty child activist who does not blink an eyelid in asking questions on quality education and better infrastructure in g...

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Human Rights

Policy Shame: Sick, Rare And Ignored

Rare diseases are a diverse set of over 7,000 different conditions that afflict an estimated 1 in 20 Indians and 350 million people worldwide. Put simply, it means that eve...

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Human Rights

Energy New Report Indicates Scale Of India’s Exclusion From Progress

Up to 43% of women in the working age (about 153 million) in India only do domestic work, indicating the scale of their exclusion from the workforce.

* A quarte...

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Festivals

A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha Wants To Use Star Power For Right Cause

Bollywood's "Shotgun Junior”, who became a part of a TV show “Mission Sapne” to raise awareness about violence against women, asserted that it's time for ...

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Gender

US Ambassador Takes Russian Counterpart To Watch Broadway Musical On Closet Gay People

The United States turned to cultural diplomacy on Tuesday to push gay rights at the United Nations by taking 15 U.N. ambassadors, including those from Russia, Gabon and Nam...

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