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A Woman Can Be A Laborer Or An Office Worker, But Will Still Be Seen As A Lesser Individual: LEARN India

“India’s workforce is more than 500 million and of that roughly 93% is the informal sector. That is a rather big number to be ignored by the government which only includes the 7% formal sector of ...
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Pragati Singh Is Trying To Transform India’s Gender & Sexuality Landscape Through Interactive Workshops

"Many asexual people are non-sexual. However, not all asexual people are non-sexual and not all non-sexual people are asexual" says public health professional Dr. Pragati Singh. Complicated as the en...
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Here’s Why We Need To Question DCW’s Decision To Privatize The Women’s Helpline 181

As the nation squirmed with the diabolic details of the Nirbhaya rape case in December 2012, the government immediately came up with women's helpline number 181. Functioning under Delhi Commission for...
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Jayanti Buruda Is The First Female Journalist, As Well As The Voice Of Koya Community

Koya is a tribal community from the southern region of India. The community has a tradition of early marriages and therefore the literacy rate among girls wobbles at a mere 15%. Jayanti Buruda belo...
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GMB Akash Captures The Most Powerful And Painful Images Of Rohingya Refugees So Far

Some time back, we spoke to multimedia journalist GMB Akash from Bangladesh, discussing his award-winning project 'Heroes of Life,’ through which he introduced the world to the beauty of the LGBTQ c...
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Suchitra Vijayan On How #MeToo Can Bring Attention To The Sexual Abuse faced By Refugees In India

As the #MeToo movement gives women a platform to raise their voices in India, we wonder what it might have in store for the ones hitherto rendered voiceless? As per surveys conducted by Human...
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Sri Lankan Artist Natalie Soysa Is Striving To ‘Bend’ Gender Norms Through Her Edgy Projects

Did you know that more than half of the 70 countries that continue to criminalise homosexuality were under some kind of British influence or control in the past? Thus the "modern" sodomy laws as we kn...
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Can You Truly Utilise Available Institutions If They’re Subconsciously Biased Against You: Lawyer Kruthika NS

The #MeToo Movement had taken the Indian internet by storm in October last year and continues to have a profound impact even now. The hashtag isn’t trending now but that movement gave voice to so ma...

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