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Empowerment
Women’s Justice in India ‘Enhanced By Female Police’
The increase in domestic incident reports in India was found to be linked to help desks run by female police officers. Help desks found...
Child marriage
Swara Kills, Says Young Pakistani Bride
Swara, also known as Vani and Budla-i-sulh, is dispute resolution method where women and girls are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved...
Asia Pacific
Reimagining Ageing: Older Persons as Agents of Development
Older persons, especially older women, also make important contributions as caregivers to both children and other older persons. This unpaid care enables younger people...
Afghanistan
Suicides by Afghan Women on a Daily Basis
Troubling news of women committing suicide racked the Human Rights Council as it heard of the desperate situation of women in the strife-torn country.
Afghanistan’s...
Civil society
A Major Retrogression: UN Rights Experts on US Supreme Court Striking Down Roe v. Wade
The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a nearly fifty-year-old legal precedent that has protected women’s right to...
Accountability
UNAMA Says Taliban Interference Rising
Civil society organizations working in Afghanistan face difficulties in hiring Afghan women staff. The UN says the psychosocial costs of denial of rights to...
Afghanistan
Taliban: The Return of Misogynistic Gynophobes in Afghanistan
The Taliban’s priority is not saving the economy and the country from these disasters. Instead, it didn’t take too long for the fundamentalist group...
Human rights
Reports of Sexual Violence in Ukraine Rising Fast, UN Security Council Told
Protection challenges facing the nearly 6.8 million people who have fled the country are unprecedented. As of 3 June, the Human Rights Monitoring Team...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
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Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review...
