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Human Rights

How To Find A Resilient Solution To Extreme Poverty

In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the numb...

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Educated Village Youth Are Turning Paralegals To Help Landless Rural Folk In Telangana

Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of proving he was the lawful owner of a small plot of land left to him by his father in the southern ...

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Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers In Brick Kilns Slowly Learn They Have Rights

Thousands of brick kiln workers in Maharashtra are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment - but remain in de...

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Thought Factory

An Elite Cafeteria Or A Canteen For Everyone?

June 30, 2015, 9.15 pm

I heaved a sigh of relief as I put down my purse, lunchbox, umbrella and some vegetables I ...

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Thought Factory

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

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Sustainable Development

Survival of small farms crucial for food security

Some of the most respected food analysts in the world such as Miguel Altieri, after a decade of study have categorically concluded that small farms are the most efficient f...

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Thought Factory

BLOOD ON THE DIGITAL DANCE FLOOR

It’s hard to steer clear from the political process in India any longer, hard to ignore the shrill cacophony that dominates as well as overpowers sensibilities and wi...

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