Search Result

Search Result
Gender

Indonesia Push To Teach Gender Equality In Schools Amid Rising Violence Against Women

IN the face of rising violence against female students, an Indonesian state commission has called for changes in the national school curriculum to promote gender equality a...

Read More
Human Rights

Reform Hold The Key To Cut Litigation In India Land Deals, Say Analysts

The process of land acquisition in India has been the source of increasing political and legal contestation for almost 200 years, says the Land Rights Initiative Reforms to...

Read More
Human Rights

Reform Hold The Key To Cut Litigation In India Land Deals, Say Analysts

The process of land acquisition in India has been the source of increasing political and legal contestation for almost 200 years, says the Land Rights Initiative Reforms to...

Read More
Gender

‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the c...

Read More
Environment

On Top Of Everything Else, Climate Change Helps West Nile Disease To Spread

In case there weren't enough reasons to be freaked out about climate change, here's another one: a new study shows it can make it easier for West Nile disease to spread. Su...

Read More
Human Rights

Around The World Women Struggle To Secure Land Rights, Own Less Than Twenty Percent

It’s 2017 and formal ownership of land for women still seems to be a distant dream, with women owning less than 20 percent of land in the world. This means that their...

Read More
Health

Targeting Old Scourges

The reference in the Union Budget to new elimination targets for some major communicable diseases barely hints at the enormous burden carried by millions in India with tube...

Read More
Human Rights

Chhattisgarh Forms State, District Level Human Rights Protection Panels

Facing criticism over alleged incidents of civil rights violations in insurgency-hit Bastar region, the Chhattisgarh government has constituted human rights protection comm...

Read More
Health

Why Dengue Turns Fatal For Patients With Second Infection

American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treat...

Read More
Health

Public Health: Increased Prescriptions Sign Of Awareness?

Depression, though widespread in India, is rarely accorded priority in the public health system, which is burdened with cases of TB and dengue as well as non-communicable d...

Read More