Human Rights

Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments have ...

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Daughter-in-law Be Treated As Family Member, Not Housemaid: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be "thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time", the Supreme Court has sa...

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Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She worke...

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A First For The Country, Maharashtra Bans Social Boycott Ordered By The Khaps

Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban village councils from imposing social boycotts. In the majority of cases, it is women and people from lower classe...

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The Brutal Ways In Which Some Clan Councils In South Asia Punish Women

In India and other parts of South Asia, clan councils have long worked outside the legal system as enforcers of centuries-old social codes and traditions. Experts say these la...

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Constable Strikes Deal With Street Children To Study

Amidst the hustle and bustle characteristic of all railway stations in the country, one is likely to come across the forlorn faces of children, forced by circumstance to earn ...

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Kenya Could Become The Next Country In Africa To Legalize Homosexuality

In a country where gay sex is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and where attacks on the LGBT community occur frequently, a solitary rainbow flag flapping in the wind jus...

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Sex Workers Defy Tradition: “Our Daughters Will Not Be Prostitutes, They Will Study.”

The Rajnat community relies on commercial sex work done by mothers, sisters and daughters to make ends meet. But these Rajnat women are determined their daughters will break f...

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Fighting Poverty, Stabilizing Peace

The United Nations is more needed today than at any time since the Cold War. It is the only place on Earth where any nation, state or government can talk to any other nation, ...

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Trashing The Ragpicker

Raja is a waste dealer in Seemapuri in Delhi, who employs around 15 people to segregate mixed waste into paper, plastic and bottles. His monthly income of around Rs 30,000 is ...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024