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2012 at Video Volunteers—The Year In Review
These days, it seems that you can find practically everything and everyone on the Internet, right? Thanks to social media, you may have reconnected with the kid who sat behind you in primary school or you might routinely find the most obscure information online. So naturally, you think the Internet...
FREE APARNA MARANDI | Human Rights Violation by Jharkhand Police | India | 11 December...
URGENT APPEAL Aparna Marandi, her four year old son Alok Chandra, Satish (16 years old) her distant relative and her two friends Baby Turi and Susheela Ekka were picked up the police on 8th December. The manner in which they were picked up, interrogated and detained, are in clear violation of...
Discrimination stands alive in crematoriums
The crematories for Dalits in Delwara district of Rajasthan are in very bad shape. There is no place for the relatives to sit and no arrangement for drinking water. There is no shed to burn the body. During monsoons, the relatives use rubber tyres to burn the deceased. For the...
Many Shades of Change
An IndiaUnheard Correspondent in rural Gujarat successfully led a successful online campaign to secure immediate treatment for 40 victims of fluorosis in her district and solved crippling water and health issues that afflicted her district. Video Volunteers’ Impact Manager Tania Devaiah writes about her impressions on how she worked with...