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Human Rights

India's New Legislation Offers Hope

Last month, the Indian Parliament passed much needed and long awaited legislation on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India. The new disability law is going to af...

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Human Rights

UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual...

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Human Rights

Culture Of Silence Around Disability Influences Bad Policy

Disability in India has long been misunderstood and persons with disability in India for decades now have lived on the fringes of society – excluded, marginalised and...

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Environment

6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

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Hollywood

In Sochi gay rights debate, stars stay offstage

The combination appeared custom-made for a grand display of Hollywood activism: a stirring human rights cause and the international platform that is the Winter Olympics. Bu...

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