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WHO Guidelines for responding to Sexually Abused Children

Sexual violence can have psychological, emotional, and physical effects on children. These effects aren’t always easy to deal with, but with the right help and suppor...

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Sustainable Development

A Pill a Day keeps your Periods Away…

“Why the hell am I bleeding every three weeks if I don't have to be?” is the question most women on hormonal birth control pills ask. ‘Withdrawal bleeding...

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Health

Beyond Menstrual Hygiene: Talking about the Taboo

Staying silent about menstrual health, apart from giving rise to unnecessary taboos towards a natural condition, could turn out to be actually harmful for us, a study revea...

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Kaleidoscope

The Sad Clown

There is a condition called the sad clown syndrome, which states that people who make others laugh, are often unhappy or depressed. That’s probably why a traditional ...

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Trending

Mr Prime Minister & Mr Finance Minister: I Want Sanitary Napkins More Than I Need Sindoor & Bangles

Hey guys! It's a GREAT time to be a woman. People are FINALLY waking up to the fact that we have rights! Equality! Agency! Liberty! Shattering ceilings! However, the Indian...

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Gender

Forced To Move Out Of Home During Their Periods

The landscape of Nepal is a geographical staircase, descending from snow-capped Himalayan mountains, through steep middle hills, to the lush flat plains of the south. This ...

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Gender

Giving Birth In Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors Of Pregnancy In Yemen

Horeh was five months pregnant with her second child when an airstrike destroyed her uncle's house in the Amran Governorate in western Yemen. "It was very loud," the 30 yea...

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Health

Contraceptive Cruelty: How patriarchy Determines Birth Control Use In India

A month or so before her wedding, 23-year-old Rituparna’s mother suggested that they go to a gynaecologist for a ‘normal check-up’. Once there however, he...

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Gender

How To Save 32000 Lives Each Year: Replace Male Doctors With Female Ones

Doctors from Harvard have an intriguing suggestion for saving 32,000 lives each year: Make sure all senior citizens who wind up in the hospital are treated by female doctor...

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Health

‘Chhattisgarh Balloon’ To Bring Down Maternal Mortality

In a significant innovation, a team of doctors in Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College here has developed a device christened the Chhattisgarh Balloon, which promises to br...

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