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India’s bride markets grow, while trafficking convictions decline

The shortage of brides in some states with skewed sex ratio has made human trafficking a lucrative trade The Indian predilection for aborting or killing the female child ap...

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Sustainable Development

Women’s empowerment in UP bleak

Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India’s largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The &lsquo...

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Thought Factory

STOP TELLING HER FAILED STORY, TELL HER YOUR STORY!

From the clothes, colors, landscapes, horizons, skies, flora and fauna, complexions, languages to livelihoods and food; everything changes from one kilometer to the other, ...

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Health

HIV is a war, not a punishment, say experts

AIDS-related stigma and discrimination refers to prejudice, negative attitude and maltreatment directed at people living with HIV and AIDS. The consequences of stigma and d...

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Sustainable Development

India To Install 2,200 Solar-Powered Mobile Communication Towers

The Indian government is set to start work on a large project to install several renewable energy-powered mobile communication towers across nine states in the central belt...

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Sustainable Development

New Toilets a Small Step for Women in this Uttar Pradesh Village

Decorated with marigolds and ribbons, 108 toilets unveiled in a tragedy-hit village are a small step in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to end open-air defecation...

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Sustainable Development

India brides leave husbands' homes for lack of toilets

Six newlywed women in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have returned to their parents because their husbands’ homes had no toilets. The women, all from ...

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Sustainable Development

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

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Sustainable Development

In India, the rate of children dying in accidents has improved slightly in a decade

They are most likely to die from drowning, building collapses and traffic accidents. Ten years after a fire killed 94 school children in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, India&rsq...

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Sustainable Development

Why India's sanitation Crisis kills Women

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India’s sanitation cr...

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