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Amendment Sc& St Prevention Of Atrocities Act Will Ensure Speedy Justice

The amended Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Rules were recently notified. The major amendments to the principle act include addition of...

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Human Rights

India's Tribes And Lower Castes Demand Legal Right To Shelter, Land

For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on l...

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Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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Human Rights

58% Disabled SC/ST Kids Not Schooled

While most parents shuttle between different schools as the admission season gets underway, for some families educating their children is not a choice - they have to help t...

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Gender

Caste Scars Gender Reality In K’shetra Village

Male child boom in upper caste families as girls’ ratio stands at 308Upper caste families of Mangoli Jattan village — having the worst gender ratio in the distr...

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Sustainable Development

Why The Children Of The Poor Must Not Be Allowed To Work In Family Enterprises

The shocking decision of the Union Cabinet to legalise child work after school hours in family enterprises must compel us to turn an unflinching spotlight on one of our gra...

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Journalist Moved To Back Row At Jain Event Because ‘Women Don’t Occupy Front Seats In Presence Of Monks’

A woman journalist being asked to shift from the front row reserved for media to make way for monks at a function to felicitate Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has trigger...

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Sustainable Development

Gender inequality undermining India’s progress: report

Deep-rooted gender inequalities continue to undermine India’s potential to translate economic growth into inclusive development, according to a government report whic...

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Health

India may miss U.N. Millennium Development Goal for maternal mortality rate

India, which accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world, is unlikely to achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality to...

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Sustainable Development

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

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