Child abuse is above the global average in Nigeria.
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Adults don’t always listen to or understand children when they are abused.
Women carry water buckets filled with water after fetching it from one of the illegal freshwater points in Mathare slum.
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Fetching water entails physical hardship that can often lead to mental agony and can sometimes even threaten a woman’s safety.
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The main reason for the growth of the informal water market is government failure to deliver adequate public services.
Residents of Kibera slum carry jerrycans to fill them with water from a bowser.
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Despite high prices, poor quality and inconvenience, Kenya’s urban poor continued to buy water from private vendors because it’s still their best option.
A 2018 protest against rape and violence against women in India.
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This is transcript of part four of the India Tomorrow series from The Anthill podcast, on women and gender politics in India.
🎧 Part 4 of India Tomorrow digs into what life is like for women in India.
India Tomorrow part 1 explores how fake news and the battle for information shapes Indian society.
Hindu right wing supporters backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party march to protest women entering the premises of Sabarimala temple, in South India, Kerala, Jan 3, claiming ‘respect for traditions’.
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The recent controversy, sloganeering and protests about Sabarimala temple in the Indian state of Kerala obscure the way that the media have used stereotypes of women and caste again and again.
Lipstick Under My Burkha challenges India’s patriarchal society as well as the film industry’s bias against women.
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Alankrita Srivastava’s feminist film has Indian censors in a tizzy.
A woman from Khonoma village, Nagaland. Can women from ‘Naga’ tribes access to equal political rights ?
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In Nagaland, a northeastern state in India, the push to implement a law giving women more representation in local politics has triggered a violent backlash.
Building a great big wall will not close the gap.
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The answer to job losses is not economic protectionism, but a strengthening of workers’ rights.
Donald Trump raises his fist after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States
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The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
India’s crackdown on black money has inconvenienced a large group of people.
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The currency switch is one of a number of steps taken by the Modi government to crack down on corruption and tax avoidance.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York.
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November 9, 2016
William Case , City University of Hong Kong ; Andrea Peto , Central European University ; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri , Thammasat University ; Jay Batongbacal , University of the Philippines ; Jonathan Rynhold , Bar-Ilan University ; Miguel Angel Latouche , Universidad Central de Venezuela ; Richard Maher , European University Institute ; Rut Diamint , Torcuato di Tella University ; Salvador Vázquez del Mercado , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) ; Subarno Chattarji , University of Delhi , and Weronika Grzebalska , Polish Academy of Sciences
Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
Raghuram Rajan’s most important achievement was in sticking to the mandate of the Reserve Bank - inflation targeting.
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Raghuram Rajan is not the first central bank governor to disappoint the government that appointed him.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has taken a no-nonsense approach to curbing inflation.
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Monetary policy involves more than managing inflation, which is why it sometimes takes a committee to decide interest rates.
Modi is making changes to Indian labour laws that are likely to boost worker productivity.
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Getting foreign investment into export-oriented labour-intensive sectors in India has been stymied by rigid labour laws.