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'There is more slavery today than in the 1800s': Gloria Steinem Trafficking is almost as profitable as the arms and drugs trade, says legendary women's rights activist and writer Gloria Steinem More... What choice do trafficked women have?Every woman in prostitution is forced into it, and therefore has to be forcibly rescued, says Dr Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of the anti-trafficking organisation Prajwala, explaining her organisation's strategies and the motivation for her work with abused and exploited women More... 'We need to fight patriarchy, not men'In an exclusive interview to InfoChange, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi explains why culture should be dissociated from religion, why Islam is not incompatible with human rights, and how women all over the world - not just in Islamic countries - suffer injustice More... 'My fasting is a means; I have no other'Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast for six years demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958, is currently in custody at AIIMS, New Delhi. In this interview with a filmmaker, she discusses her motivation More... BODHI: Contuining medical education for healthcare workersFor 20 years, Dr PK Sarkar has been publishing bulletins and magazines to provide doctors and patients unbiased and objective information on drugs and rational therapy. His journals are fiercely independent, even if that means a hand-to-mouth existence More... 'Documentary filmmakers: An endangered species'Filmmaker, wildlife conservationist and Green Oscar-winner Mike Pandey discusses his films on the horseshoe crab, whale shark and other endangered species More... Janaagraha: Harnessing the force of the peopleDespite the 74th Amendment which calls for ward-level committees and empowered gram panchayats, despite the Right to Information and the National Urban Renewal Mission’s requirement of citizen participation through Area Sabhas, people’s participation in urban local governance is minimal. Janaagraha in Bangalore has been attempting to change that over the past four years. An in-depth report on its processes More... 'I suffered as a dalit, but did not view myself as a suffering dalit'K R Narayanan, India's first and only dalit President, died recently. In this, one of his final interviews, India's tenth President discusses his journey from a village hut to the presidential palace More... Fighting the stigma of 'chor'One of colonialism's harshest legacies was the branding of 10 crore nomadic and forest tribals as thieves and criminals. Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer Lakshman Maruti Gaikwad, whose books chronicle the pain and anguish suffered by his community, the Pardhis, continues the struggle against this injustice More... 'All out-of-school children must be considered child labour': Shamshad KhanWinner of Outlook magazine's Best Social Worker of the Year award, Shamshad Khan, director of the Centre for Rural Education and Development Action, is on a mission: to rescue and rehabilitate young children working in the Mirzapur-Bhadohi carpet belt in Uttar Pradesh More... A thousand dreams, 1,000 voicesThe 157 South Asian women who are amongst the 1,000 women being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, are struggling to get access to clean water, control over land and other resources; they are fighting against the destruction of local diversities, building bridges between conflicting communities, and working to protect the human rights of women and other minorities More... Phenomenal woman: Sashikala GovekarOn a search for its Woman of the Year, the Goan newspaper Gomantak Times came across the extraordinary Sashikala Govekar, a fisherwoman who breathes life into Mapusa market, and a sarpanch who is much respected in Nerul More... A positive approachJahnabi Goswami is the first woman in the northeast to declare her HIV status. She has lived with HIV -- and the accompanying discrimination -- for ten years. In 2002 she set up the Assam Network of Positive People to build the capacities of people living with the virus More... E F Schumacher: The scale of wisdomE F Schumacher's Buddhist approach to economics distinguishes between misery, sufficiency and surfeit. Economic growth is good only to the point of sufficiency. Limitless growth and limitless consumption are disastrous More... |
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