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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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Sustainable Development

Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the new...

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Environment

A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and A...

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Gender

Still A Man's World

IT IS still common to see headlines announcing the first woman to occupy some important post or other. Asako Suzuki has just been appointed the first female board member at...

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Environment

The All-Female Patrol Stopping South Africa's Rhino Poachers

The Black Mambas are winning the war on poaching,” insists SiphiweSithole. “We have absolutely zero tolerance for rhino poaching and the illegal wildlife trade....

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Human Rights

Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.
The victims, nearly all of them...

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Festivals

DFW South Asian Film Festival: A Weekend Of Color, Contemplation And Cinema In North Texas

When fans and community members make a beeline for the action second year in a row, it is safe to assume that it has won over the hearts of the local community. Such was th...

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Environment

Bee Extinction Is Threatening The World’s Food Supply, UN Warns

Last Monday, members of nearly 100 national governments met in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a weeklong conference to discuss the threats facing animal pollinators...

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