Search Result

Search Result

Do Children Have A Right To Be Loved?

Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. The 1989 Declaration on the Rig...

Read More

2.5 Billion People At Risk Of Hunger And Poverty If Land Rights Are Not Protected

Indigenous peoples and local communities protect half the world's land, but formally own just 10 percent, according to a report released today by a global alliance of NGOs....

Read More

Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.
Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said &...

Read More

‘I View World’ film festival makes Delhi debut

Engendered, a trans-national arts and human rights organisation that has been organising the “I View World” film festival in New York for the past several years...

Read More

National Geographic Partners With Bollywood Celebrities To Promote #Standwithagirl

To uniquely mark International Women’s Day on March 8, National Geographic is highlighting education and empowerment for the Indian girl child. Bollywood celebrities ...

Read More

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

Read More

World Wildlife Day 2016: 15 Ways To Save Earth’s Animals And Plants

Thursday marks World Wildlife Day, which the 68th session of the United Nations General Assemblydesignated as a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the planet’s ...

Read More

Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.
The victims, nearly all of them...

Read More

Women's Bill Against Sharia, Will Make Men Feel 'Insecure': Pak Cleric

The recently-passed women's rights bill by Pakistan's Punjab Assembly is in direct conflict with Sharia laws and will make men feel "insecure", a top Pakistani religious an...

Read More

Malnutrition, Alcoholism In Tribal Madhya Pradesh Get Baneebai Cure

At first glance, her profile hardly looks newsworthy — a young woman of the poor Bhilala tribe in Madhya Pradesh; a high school dropout.But BaneebaiNingwal has the re...

Read More