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Women In India Need Better Access To Contraception: UN Study

Due to a lack of access to information or services, or a lack of support from partners or communities, an estimated 225 million women globally are not using safe and effect...

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Human Rights

Festivities At Candolim Beach Await Wheelchair Users

Wheelchair users who haven't experienced Goa's beaches and waters will soon feel the wind in their hair and the sand in their toes. The first of its kind wheelchair accessi...

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Human Rights

Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts ...

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Human Rights

Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. ...

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Human Rights

Human Rights Rankings: No Perfect Company

The rankings don’t make for a pretty picture and quite validate the purpose of Corporate Human Rights Benchmark The first Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) rank...

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FICCI Frames 2017: IPR Policy Philosophy Should Be To Protect Knowledge To Spur Innovation And Investment

MUMBAI, 21 March, 2017: The new National Intellectual Property Rights policy of the Government of India has established a unified institutional mechanism for implementation...

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Human Rights

Human Rights Rankings: No Perfect Company

The first Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) ranking for 2017 is finally out. This next big thing in global human rights tracking is well on its way: it hasn’t p...

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Speech By Angelina Jolie ‘In Defense Of Internationalism’

We are here in memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello and the 21 other men and women, most of them UN workers, who died with him in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad ...

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Human Rights

Why A 106-Year-Old Event Is Still Relevant In 2017

Women won't be coming to work. That's what Americans may think that International Women's Day means this year. The event, which has been celebrated for 106 years, has no si...

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Human Rights

Child Rights Commission Demands Implementation Of Supreme Court Rules On School Buses

Concerned about the increasing number of deaths of children in school bus accidents, the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) at a meeting w...

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