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- Responding to violence against women
- An international campaign - 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence kicked off on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence ...
- No more violence, cry Nandigram villagers
- Forced to flee from their homes, the villagers of Nandigram now only want to be left in peace. The recent upsurge of political violence in this East Midnapore ...
- End of a violent campaign in Nepal
- Cadres of Maoists and other political parties in Nepal continued to clash with each other until the last day of campaigning. Over 200 poll-related incidents of ...
- UN warns of violence ahead of Nepal polls
- Campaign is in full swing for the historic April 10 Constituent Assembly polls in Nepal. In its final assessment report, the UN has urged political groups to ...
- Battling over faith
- Kandhamal district in Orissa has become India’s latest battle site over faith. Over the past month radical Hindu groups have attacked churches, accusing them ...
- Where the mind is without fear
- Plan's new report, Learn without fear is an extension of the global campaign to end violence in schools where millions of children are subjected ...
- Online community to StopXploitation
- StopX.org, launched by UNICEF at the recent third World Congress on sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is a new tool to fight child exploitation, ...
- Making women’s security a prime concern
- Women’s physical survival and safety must be viewed as a security issue and violence against women is as much a social concern as war, famine or terrorism, ...
- Amnesty rally calls for safe schools for girls
- Hundreds of students, teachers and activists marched in a recent nationwide rally in India organised by the human rights body to demand access to safe ...
- Targeted killings of Christians meant for ‘religious cleansing’
- A fact-finding team of concerned citizens has found enough evidence to suggest that the Orissa state government in eastern India was working in collusion with ...
- UN campaign on VAW calls for stronger action
- Launched in 2007, UNIFEM's ‘Say NO to Violence against Women’ campaign has gained momentum since with five million supporters. The call to governments is now ...
- Fading in the background: Women in free India
- A film, Lightning Testimonies, captures the haunting images of violence against women spanning over six decades of independent India. Aanchal ...
- Violence against women in India has gone up
- There is hardly anything to celebrate for women in India on International Women's Day, where instances of gender discrimination and violence are only ...
- Fire injury kills majority of Indian women, says study
- Fire-related injuries are a major cause of death of young women in India according to a latest research. The study reveals that such incidents, most commonly ...
- Economic crisis escalating conflict in the world
- According to a new Global Peace Index, there is an obvious correlation between the ongoing economic crisis and the declining peace. In comparison to last year, ...
- UN reaffirms commitment of humanitarian assistance
- Commemorating the first World Humanitarian Day, UN expressed sadness over increased violence and danger faced by aid workers across the globe. Remembering the ...
- Eliminating violence against women
- Addressing Gender-based Violence outlines UNFPA’s strategy and action framework to raise awareness on the issue. The publication points out a ...
- Justice in waiting
- Journalist Rahul Bedi does a stark recall of India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots where Hindu mobs massacred 3,000 Sikhs following the assassination of former ...
- Bodo youth in India pledge to end gun culture
- Thousands of Bodo youth signed up on a pledge to shun the path of violence and use of guns in the northeast of India. They had gathered at a function to mark ...
- Study highlights loopholes in India's domestic violence law
- Two years after it was brought into force by the Indian government, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act suffers from inadequate resource ...
- Mental health problems on the rise in Afghanistan
- Decades of violent conflict have taken their toll on Afghanistan, with large numbers of people suffering from mental disorders. With no proper care and ...
- Scarred lives in Bangladesh
- Most victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh are young girls below 18, says the Acid Survivors Foundation, which works to raise social awareness against the ...
- War in the making
- A classic capitalistic battle is being staged in Chhattisgarh in central India as the state agencies connive with corporates to drive tribals away from land ...
- Gender and violence in South Asia
- SID-SAN combined series of case studies on Women and Political Conflict and Well-being in South Asia explores the political disruptions in the ...
- Good voter turnout in first phase of Indian election
- India witnessed impressive voter turnout in the first phase of elections in which 124 of the total of 543 parliamentary constituencies went for poll on ...
- Tackling abuse against children
- The Expect Respect Educational Toolkit by Women’s Aid has been designed to help schools address the issue of domestic abuse. This online resource ...
- Afghanistan: 'Silence is violence' against women
- A new report by the United Nations argues that international community is hesitant to raise difficult questions about women’s rights in Afghanistan for fear of ...
- A long way to homeland
- Torn between state repression and Naxalite violence, the tribals of Nendra, a village in central India, have been forced to live in makeshift camps. Thanks to ...
- Pakistan passes bill against domestic violence
- Pakistan has approved a pathbreaking law that recognises domestic violence as a crime. In a country where many cases of abuse go unreported, the legislation, ...
- Sexual violence during conflicts must end: UN
- At a high-level meet of the UN held early this week, participants discussed conflict-related sexual violence in peace processes and peace accords. Women’s ...
