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Girls As Young As Five Are Sold To Prostitution In India: Ruchira Gupta

Girls as young as five are being sold into the multi-billion dollar sex trafficking industry, said Ruchira Gupta, founder and president of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, at a ta...

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Toiling For A Toilet

On June 15, 2016, just off a train ride 1,000 miles south from a brick kiln in Punjab, Ramlal Baghel, along with his three sons and their wives, arrived home to their villa...

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10 Year Old Launches Clothing Line To Combat Colourism

A 10-year-old girl has created a clothing line to help challenge colourism. Kheris Rogers, from Los Angeles, was bullied a lot at school for her skin colour, which affected...

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India Has 31% Of The World's Poor Kids

About 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India, according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiativ...

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This Community Fridge Is Helping The Homeless & The Hungry

As the bell chimes loudly at the Shiv Temple in Versova, an elderly woman hobbles towards the temple’s gates, briefly stopping by the flower vendor, who nods at her a...

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Risking Lives Of Mothers & Children': India Condemned For Cuts To Benefits

Campaigners warn of damaging effect of scaling back a maternal payment scheme introduced to stem high death rates among infants and mothers Campaigners have warned that the...

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Decriminalising Sex Work Is At The Frontier Of Workers Rights

It's been called the oldest profession in the world, but despite centuries of labor sex work still gets a bad rap. Whether or not you agree that sex work should or shouldn'...

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The Female Dalit Voice, In Tamil Verse

Naked display of dissent straddles the boundary that separates fear from revolution. For India's Dalits, this proclamation of dissent has assumed many forms, both passive a...

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What's Keeping Indian Women From Working

India has one of the largest populations of working people in the world, but a recent report has found that fewer women are now entering the workforce. Today, just one in f...

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The Sex Slaves Of Al-Shabab

When Salama Ali started investigating the disappearance of two younger brothers last year she made an awful discovery - not only were radicalised young Kenyan men leaving t...

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