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Boys And Girls Are Born Equal: The Power Of Challenging Gender Norms Early In Life

Diya (not her real name), a young girl in Jharkhand, India, regularly
experiences violence at the hands of her father. The injuries she
sustains from her father&r...

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Gender

Women Power To The Fore

Electing 54 per cent women members in the LSG polls in a near total literate state like Kerala would prove effective, corruption-free administration when especial...

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Environment

It’s Pretty Obvious Not Enough Is Being Done Ahead of the Paris Climate Talks

"We have some substantial reductions that come out of that, and that takes a curve that's been bending and keeps bending it even further," said David Waskow, director of th...

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Gender

Are Quotas The Way To Get Women To The Top?

As a young, ambitious British lawyer, Cherie Blair was firmly against imposing quotas to help advance women’s careers but 30 years later she is happy to admit she was...

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Gender

Overcoming Culture: Can India Eliminate Gender Violence?

Just over a month ago on September 25th, the 193 member countries of the United Nations voted on and approved the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the hop...

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Gender

India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...

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Gender

Supreme Court Sets 2005 Cut-Off On Women Right To Ancestral Property

The court said the father would have had to be alive on September 9, 2005, if the daughter were to become a co-sharer with her male siblings. In a ruling that will restrict...

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Gender

How Street Plays & Theatre Are Raising The Curtain On Violence Against Women In UP

Domestic violence, sexual harassment and dowry cases are not really news in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. But a few compassionate activists and organizations are taking...

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Gender

The Ethics Of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments

This is a follow-up to the previous post on Debra Satz’s analysis of commercial surrogacy. In that post, I reviewed three classic objections to surrogacy and presente...

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Retroscope

Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...

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