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How Did a DD Show On Sex Education Become India’s Most Watched Television Programme?

The show uses the form of a highly charged soap, complete with dramatic music and cliff-hangers, to impart lessons on spacing between pregnancies, contraceptives, puberty, ...

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Hollywood

Jane Fonda Speaks Of Abuse, And Her ‘Disease To Please’

Jane Fonda attending the red carpet arrivals at the 19th Costume Designers Guild awards presented by Lacoste at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, on February 21, 2...

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Gender

Meet 4 Women Who Refused To Be Bullied by Online Trolls And Fought Back

In the past few days, the one topic that has seemed inescapable on social media, especially Twitter, is the online abuse that has been heaped upon 20-year-old student, Gurm...

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Alternative Entertainment

A New Indian Website Is Helping Sexual Assault Survivors Heal

The Internet is a curation of all things wonderful, or terrible, depending on which side of it you wander into. A group of young Indians have attempted to do their own bit,...

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Alternative Entertainment

UK Theatre Uses Play To Address Sexual Assault And Scrutiny In A Social Media World

University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance takes on a very important and difficult topic the next several days as it presents "Good Kids," a play centered on th...

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Hollywood

Ashton Kutcher Takes Fight Against Sex Slavery To US Congress

In advance of the END IT Movement’s fifth annual “Shine a Light on Slavery” day, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relatio...

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Bollywood

Crime Against Women Isn’t Age-Bound In India, Don’t Think Kids Are Safe: Raveena Tandon

When it comes to voicing her opinion actor Raveena Tandon never thinks twice. The actor is concerned about women’s safety in India. Being a mother of three daughters,...

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Gender

Violence Against Women Hurts The Economy

India is caught in a depressing cycle of lack of empowerment of women and low economic productivity in society There are obviously many reasons to be appalled and sickened ...

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Alternative Entertainment

These 10 Powerful Images Shut Down All Who Blame Women’s Clothes For Sexual Assault

Usually when the gory details of molestation, sexual harassment, and rape cases become news in India, some people end up erroneously dissecting the clothes worn by the vict...

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Human Rights

Indian Women Seeing Abortions Beyond 20 Weeks Face Desperate Legal Struggles

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a woman from Mumbai who is 24 weeks pregnant to have an abortion because her foetus had anancephaly – a life threatening conditio...

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