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    Child mortality

    Underweight: A Persistent Negligence

    The gendered distribution of food within families continues to socialize girls to eat last and less, often surviving on leftovers after male family members had...
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    Food Security

    Migration Patterns in Udaipur’s Adivasi Communities: A Complex Tale of Struggle, Mobility, and Identity

    Young men from these communities, burdened by poor educational outcomes and limited job prospects, view migration as a means to escape the cycle of...
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    Climate change

    Water Stories: The Well Seven Families and 400 Buffaloes Rely On

    The government’s aim is to increase the number of people using safe drinking water to at least 90 percent by 2030, in line with...
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    Corporate governance

    There’s Progress on Gender Equality at the Workplace, But Glass Ceilings Persist: ILO

    Yet, women remain under-represented in decision-making positions; fewer than one in three (28 per cent) of EBMOs have achieved gender equality at managerial level,...
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    Gender equality

    Potential to Build Gender-Centric Dialogic Interfaces with Men

    Young men do share a sense of acknowledgement of the exhaustion experienced by women – suggesting grounds for possibilities of longer and critical engagements...
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    Gender equality

    Alliance for Global Good – Gender Equity and Equality: Logo and Website Launched

    The Alliance is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and anchored by the CII Centre for Women Leadership with the World Economic...
    OWSA Staff -
    Afghanistan

    Gender Apartheid Must Be Recognised as a Crime Against Humanity, UN Experts Say

    The experts warned that in Afghanistan, Taliban edicts, policies and practices constitute an institutionalised system of discrimination, oppression and domination of women and girls,...
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    Diversity

    Hindu Woman Doctor Confident of Election In Pakistan Polls

    After completing medical education in July 2022, she saw the issues women visiting hospitals faced and decided to enter politics instead of continuing her...
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