Dozens Of Countries Poised To Drive Out Malaria By 2020
Hopes of eliminating malaria from more than 30 countries with a total population of 2 billion have risen following the successful removal of the disease from Sri Lanka. Public health officials said 13 countries, including Argentina and Turkey, had reported no cases for at least a year and may well follow the success of Sri […]
Uzbekistan Prepares To Bury Veteran Leader Islam Karimov
Uzbekistan has started three days of mourning as it buries its president, Islam Karimov, who spent 27 years in power. Thousands of Uzbeks lined up along Tashkent’s main thoroughfare at dawn on Saturday as Karimov’s funeral cortege made its way through the city. Karimov, who died on Friday at the age of 78 after suffering […]
Female Tourists Should Not Wear Skirts In India, Says Tourism Minister
India’s tourism minister has said foreign women should not wear skirts or walk alone at night in the country’s small towns and cities “for their own safety”. Discussing tourist security in the north Indian city of Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, Mahesh Sharma said foreign arrivals to India were issued a welcome kit that […]
Women Walk Alone To Reclaim India’s Streets From Fear And Harassment
fter a long and tiring day, Neha Khandelwal, 26, fell asleep on the bus in Delhi on her way home. She woke up, startled, when she felt someone grab her breasts. Drowsy and not completely alert, it took her a minute to gauge what had happened. The man sitting next to her on the bus […]
Delhi Schools Offer Safe Space For Children To Speak Up About Sexual Abuse
In the cavernous assembly hall at Victor public school in the Delhi suburb of Shahdara, hundreds of pupils sit cross-legged on the floor to watch a story about seven-year-old Komal. Komal’s parents become friendly with a new neighbour. He treats her affectionately and her parents tell her to call him Bakshi Uncle. He gives her […]
Pakistanis Displaced By War Return To Wrecked Homes And A Ruined Economy
Bara Market was once a bustling hive of about 10,000 shops. Now it is rubble – reminder of the destruction that the war between Pakistan’s government and militant groups has inflicted on the economy in this region on the Afghanistan border. Pakistan’s military launched an offensive in October 2014 against militant groups in the federally […]
No Legal Status: How India Is Ignoring Its Thousands Of Displaced Citizens
It has been three years since Madvi Deva, 30, saw his two young children and his elderly parents. “I miss them very much. But if I go back to my village in Chhattisgarh [state in central India], I will die,” he says. Deva and his wife, Sumi, are now living in Terapad village in Khammam […]
India’s All-Female Paper Goes Digital To Make Gender Taboos Old News
n the first day of her new job, Meera* came home after dark, and the elders of her household scolded her. “What kind of job is this that means you have to stay out so late?” they shouted. “You can’t do this work – tell them you won’t be coming back tomorrow. What will […]
Feminism Is Breaking Through The Rigid Patriarchy In Pakistan
Even for a society brutalised by years of mass violence, the murder of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was shocking. Perhaps it was the public nature of her life and the apparent social sanctioning of her death by the misogynist trolls who threatened her on Facebook. Perhaps it was the unapologetic manner in which she […]
Indian Activist Ends 16-year Hunger Strike With A Lick Of Honey
After 16 years, it was a lick of honey that did it. The world’s longest hunger strike ended on Tuesday when an Indian human rights campaigner gave up her protest against state violence but pledged to continue the fight in the political arena. Crinkling her face at the taste of food, Irom Sharmila, 44, from […]
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