She is not abiding by the stereotypical norms of Indian society which ought to be followed by all girls especially that of the rural region. As a girl enters the stage of adulthood, she steps across the threshold of her new phase of married life...
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Trafficking of women and young girls is on the rise in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal. It is of no surprise that women from the impoverished parts of the country make up the majority of the trafficked victims. Years of political uncertainty,...
If there is a will, there’s a way – a famous epigram we’ve heard many a times in our lives but Afroz went a step ahead by proving the statement.
She left Jeddah during the crises of Gulf War in 1991 by boarding a plane not knowing where she’s...
London is experiencing an increase in the honor killings. Thousands of young women in Britain are living in fear of the ‘hidden scourge’ of so-called honour killing, authorities are of the view that a murder for so-called honor is committed every two...
Betty Makoni of Zimbabwe, girls’ right activist has been awarded the annual World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child yesterday. While India's Inderjit Khurana and Myanmar's Cynthia Maung collectively became the recipient of an honorary...
Kamilat Mehdi, a twenty one year old girl has been stalked by a person in Eithiopia. While she was on her way back home, the person came from the shadows and threw sulphuric acid on her face. Not only the acid distorted her face but it also disfigured...
The life of a homeless person is never easy. But for homeless women, it is especially hard. All too often, drug pushers, pimps, robbers and rapists prey on these vulnerable women.
While there, are laws in India saying that girls must be educated but...
When the entire country was soaked up with water and was celebrating the festival of colors, Irom Sharmila, an activist from Manipur was busy fighting for rights.
She had been on hunger strike from the past six years. She has taken up stand for...
India is a country where the majority Hindus worship female deities like Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth or Saraswati, the goddess of learning and where the female form is revered as the Universal Mother- women are continue to be abused and disrespected. ...
India is a country of 1.1 billion people, where 5.7 million are living with HIV/Aids. But unfortunately, more than 40% of women in the nation have not heard about AIDS.
According to a research conducted by the National Family Health Survey, only 57%...
Economy of the nation is growing and is moving a step closer towards meeting the international standards but unfortunately the public health is has massively declined over a past decade. And women and children are its worst victims.
According to the...
Sonia would become the first woman to be hanged in Independent India. A death sentence has been passed to her along with her husband who ruthlessly battered their eight family members to death just for the sake of property, which is estimated to billions...
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.
In South Asian countries, the culture of patriarchy is deeply...
After running out of money in a game of poker, Andrei Karpov from Murmansk offered his opponent his wife instead of cash to stay in the game.
When he lost the game, his opponent Sergey Brodov asked for his ‘claim’. The wife, Tatiana got so angry...
The United Nations' first all-female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen has arrived in Liberia.
They would carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections.
The unit is made up volunteers drawn from across India and is...
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Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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