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Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

India's first accessibility audit of buildings and public places has not found a single completely disabled-friendly building, exposing terrible plight of people with disab...

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Health

Maternal Deaths Come Down In Haryana

After a decline in the infant mortality rate, the health department has recorded a 28.8 % decrease in maternal mortality rate during 2015-16, though it is more than Delhi's...

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Human Rights

Online Freedom Is A 'Human Right' That Must Be Protected, Says UN

The UN has passed a resolution for the "promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet".
The resolution states the importance of "applying a compr...

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Health

Adolescent Sexual Health: Time To Invest In A Healthy Future Generation

Good adolescent sexual health is the cornerstone of future healthy families and is essential for the development of optimal intimate and social relations including gender e...

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Gender

Capital: The Tool Women Need for Water

Lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities affects women and girls most. Jennifer Schorsch, president of Water.org, explains how it is women who step up to sol...

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Human Rights

Living With Energy Poverty

If you can read this, you probably have access to affordable and reliable electricity all day, every day. 1.4 billion people around the world don’t. We need to addres...

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Human Rights

How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownershi...

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Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send...

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Gender

New York Makes History, With Tampons And Pads

New York City made history today with passage of the nation’s first legislative package to ensure access to menstrual products in public schools, shelters and correct...

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Alternative Entertainment

Tangled, Toronto’s First Accessible Art Gallery For Disabled Artists, Is Bringing The Outsiders In

Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed in the 1970s without the artist’s name, who was rarely e...

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