This article was written by Unni Krishnan and Bibhudatta Pradhan for Bloomberg, 11 November 2014 An Indian surgeon used infected instruments to sterilise 83 women in about six hours, according to a local medical official, leaving 11 of them dead and another 68 hospitalised in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The doctor breached guidelines that limit […]
CONTINUE READINGThis article was written by Sumita Mukherjee for The Conversation, 16 May 2014 Narendra Modi’s BJP has won a massive election victory in India – the first time any party has secured an outright majority since the Congress Party won in 1984 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Some 540m people, 66.4% of eligible voters, […]
CONTINUE READINGThis article was written by Deborah Doane for the Guardian, 23 April 2014 While some measurable progress has been made since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh a year ago, little within the sector has changed: big western companies continue to call the shots; others fall into line. In recent months, campaigners have brought several […]
CONTINUE READINGThis article was written by Nirmala George for the Associated Press, 11 April 2014 SARAI, India (AP) — Trudging home after a long day harvesting wheat, Veena Devi has little time for the political workers swarming her northern Indian village seeking votes for their candidates. “They come to us each time promising piped water, public […]
CONTINUE READINGThis article was written by Anne Gulland for the British Medical Journal, 12 March 2014 India’s mortality rate in children under 5 could be reduced to less than half its current level if all women completed their education, the United Nations has said. A global UN report into the education of women and girls said […]
CONTINUE READINGThis article was written by Manash Pratim Gohain for The Times of India, 10 March 2014 Literacy is still a distant dream for vulnerable young women. Going at the present pace of development, India will take at least another 56 years to achieve female youth literacy. A serious gender imbalance in global education has left […]
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