13 Mar 2023 2 minute read
On 30 September 2022, India’s top court voided a rule that differentiated between ... abortion . Previously, in 2021, a historic amendment to India’s abortion law had finally allowed unmarried women to ... remain the third leading cause of maternal mortality in India. According to a study in The Lancet , of the 15.6 ...
8 Mar 2023 7 minute read
... in many countries, discrimination against trans people in India runs deep. In a 2017 survey , nearly half of the 610 ... councillor Bobby Kinnar was elected in December 2022, India now has several trans judges , and the country’s ... Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018, in New Delhi, India, 28 December 2018. REUTERS/ADNAN ABIDI Discrimination ...
7 Mar 2023 3 minute read
... or forced into major policy shifts by protests in Armenia, India , Sudan , Chile , Bangladesh and Serbia, to name but a ...
1 Mar 2023 1 minute read
... in this issue, the Right’s attempt to rewrite history in India, the Kurdish feminist revolution and is Ron DeSantis ...
20 Feb 2023 5 minute read
... countries surveyed: Brazil, Nigeria, the Philippines and India. MEDIA LENS KING/SHUTTERSTOCK Much as generational ... Nigeria (66 per cent), the Philippines (74 per cent) and India (74 per cent). There is mounting speculation that the ...
13 Feb 2023 5 minute read
... the thousands of sanitation workers in several cities of India – including Indore, Panchkula, Nagpur and Navi Mumbai ... municipal corporation in Chandigarh, a city in northern India, pays $265,000 a year to rent the smartwatches from IMTAC India Pvt Ltd, an IT company. If the authority is capable of ...
4 Jan 2023 5 minute read
... their part. Adani, who has a stake in almost every part of India’s energy chain , recently gained valuable contracts ... data centres and real estate, as well as coal mines in India, Indonesia and Australia. But the 60-year-old ...
2 Jan 2023 1 minute read
... Uganda, the Philippines, the West Bank, Colombia, Brazil, India, Italy and Iran, plus debates, ideas, letters, ...
22 Dec 2022 7 minute read
... the world, particularly in terms of access to food. In India, the proportion of the population without access to ... 1.2 million in Indonesia; and a staggering 3.65 million in India. The only large populous region left unscathed was ... century, British appropriation of agricultural yields in India and China led to serial famines that caused tens of ...
21 Dec 2022 2 minute read
... their choice and agency. They risk penalties and worse. In India, the ban on the hijab can rightly be viewed as yet ... their freedom to practice their religion as guaranteed by India’s secular constitution. What do women the world over ... they choose to wear or not wear. The hijab – as women in India and Iran have shown – can be a symbol of freedom as ...
9 Dec 2022 3 minute read
... and caged beds has been found in places including Ghana, India and the Czech Republic. The World Network of Users and ... as the Centre for Mental Health Advocacy at Bapu Trust, India, are working with people in distress to access multiple ...