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Gender

India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entre...

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Human Rights

Going Mainstream In Including Disabled People In Development

Across the world, 1 in 7 people has a disability and 80 percent live in developing countries. Many people with disabilities face discrimination and stigma in their everyday...

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Gender

Only 37% Of Over 10,000 Pay-To-Use Toilets In Mumbai Are For Women’

Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. Last month, it made 22-year-old Laxmi Pandit plead, bargain and fight with the hard-nosed attendant of a toilet near...

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63L Toilets Made In 8 Months: NSSO

A recent sample survey carried out by the government on the usage of toilets seeks to disprove the notion that access to toilets may not automatically change attitudes of p...

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Health

Un World Toilet Day: Urban Thoughts Cannot Develop Rural Cities, Says Experts

On the occasion of United Nations World Toilet Day, organizations like World Toilet Organization, Parmarth Niketan, Reckitt Benckiser India and Pehel- The Initiative, empha...

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Wash Up! For Universal Children's Day

“The one thing all children have in common is their rights. Every child has the right to survive and thrive, to be educated, to be free from violence and abuse, to pa...

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Health

Tweets For Toilets: How A-Listers Saved Sanitation

Matt Damon’s YouTube videos has helped push a long-ignored community up the global agenda. But we need to do more than salve consciences There is Beyoncé in he...

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Health

India’s Sanitation Crisis Is The Biggest In The World’

Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organization in 2001 by breaking the taboo associated with sanitation through his unique blend of humour and seriousness. In an email inte...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi Visits His Extended Family In Vrindavan

Vivek Oberoi is a man of his words and makes it a point to live up to his commitments. The talented actor and philanthropist who turned a year older on September 3 kept his...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi joins PM Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan via sanitation project

Vivek Oberoi dedicates his birthday to a cause every year, and this year it was no different. The actor-philanthropist, who turned 39 on Thursday, announced a sanitation in...

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