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Dowry-Related Violence Kills Over 20 Women in India Daily

 
/ March 5, 2018

The highest number of crimes against women in India is because of “cruelty” by the husband or his family, with a dismal conviction rate.

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Community Health Workers Play a Major Role in Lowering Maternal Mortality

 
/ March 2, 2018

Health workers in West Bengal are counseling and motivating men to undergo vasectomies, and addressing the social determinants of health like gender dynamics and conditions of living.

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Kashmiri Eye Pellet Victim Waits for Justice in Darkness

 
/ March 1, 2018

A young man blinded by a pellet gunshot is still waiting for compensation from the Jammu and Kashmir government.

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Child Care Centre Runs for 20 Years Without a Building

 
/ February 26, 2018

Running in a makeshift community hall, an anganwadi leaves women and children without essential services.

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Indigenous Communities Finally get their Land Rights

 
/ February 23, 2018

July 2017 was a month of celebration for over 200 people of 11 villages in Sundarpahari Block. Two years of community mobilisation had finally gotten them land tenure, under the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

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Studying Without a School

 
/ February 21, 2018

Over the past five years, parents in a village in Madya Pradesh have been using rooms in other people's homes to school their children, while the local government fails to finish building the community's only primary school.

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Navi Mumbai Municipal Workers Demand Permanent Employment

 
/ February 19, 2018

Navi Mumbai is believed to be one of Mumbai's best-planned areas, but what about the condition of those who keep the city on its feet? 

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Trafficked and Sold from One Man to Another, Minor Finally Returns Home

 
/ February 16, 2018

Nati was one of the 130 children who go missing and often fall victim to trafficking every day in India. Sold for 70,000 rupees, she was forcibly married and abused for a year before she managed to come back home.