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4 of 5 Sterilised Women Have 3 Or More Kids, Suggests Survey

Even as female sterilisation continues to be the most common contraceptive method used in India, it has failed to address the problem of population control. Almost four out...

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Festivals

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from 6 to 17 March, 2017, featuring 16 award-winning international documentary feature films that grapple w...

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In The Netherlands, Empty Prisons Become Homes For Refugees

In an interesting take on reusing and recycling, a government agency in the Netherlands has opened empty prisons to accommodate the influx of migrants seeking asylum. As th...

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Human Rights

Start Looking At Children As Equal Citizens

It is often mentioned that children are the future of the world, of every country. What we need to think is, however, that children are also very much the present of the wo...

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Health

Slum Health Is Not Urban Health: Why We Must Distinguish Between The Two

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’...

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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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Gender

Why Odisha’s Tribal Women Are Returning To Their Natural Roots For Guidance On Food

Even in 21st century India, there is a sizeable number of children for whom life is riddled with poverty, food insecurity, poor nutrition, and minimal access to safe water,...

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Gender

This Terracotta Invention Is Easing Periods For Young Rural Girls

In India, anything related to menstruation is treated like a state secret, whispered about behind closed doors and wrapped in brown paper. As a result young girls across th...

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Human Rights

Why Did India's Media Ignore The Disability Bill?

December 16, 2016 will go down in history as one of the landmarks in the history of the Disability Rights Movement in India. After years of discussions, deliberations, deba...

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Gender

This 16-Year-Old Is Changing Attitudes & Promoting Better Sanitation In The Slums Of Mumbai

For an outsider who steps into the slums of Govandi East for the first time, the smell that hits them first. Next they are greeted by the sight of open drainage lines that ...

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