The reality for many women in India.
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If you have to devote hours a day to collecting water, you miss out on education, a social life and other human rights.
A different measure of poverty shows 70% of the world’s poor live in what the World Bank considers middle-income countries.
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The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
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Languages are said to be disappearing faster than endangered species with a different one dying every two weeks.
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On the outskirts of Bangalore, families must piece together drinking water from communal supplies, intermittently available tap water, and “water ATMs”.
Time for change.
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A series of brutal rapes in India has led to pressure to stop violence against women.
Looking for stability.
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Despite perceptions of an antagonistic Pakistan-India-Afghanistan dynamic, there are strong institutional foundations for a more cooperative relationship.
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Are pretty blue and gold stripes more important than being a bold little swimmer?
Gold jewellery has traditionally been central to dowries in India.
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Increases in gold prices on world commodities markets are linked to fewer surviving girls in India. This is related to gold often being part of bridal dowries.
Cases of so-called ‘forced conversions’ of Hindu women to Islam have been at the forefront of Pakistan and Indian news. But what about the women’s own choices?
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Many conversions of Hindu women in Pakistan are harnessed as a means to an end and not necessarily the initial objective.
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Although human rights victories are beyond doubt cause for celebration, often we are blinded to the potential of alternative paths of action.
Hindu texts from thousands of years ago demonstrate acceptance of a ‘third gender.’ Today, transgender Indians, or hijras, remain visible members of society.
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Before colonialism, India embraced homosexuality and gender fluidity. The Supreme Court’s repeal of a 157-year-old gay sex ban partially reclaims that history, but LGBTQ Indians still face hurdles.
Indian has a booming poultry market.
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India doesn’t eat much meat per capita, but that might be changing: it’s the fastest-growing poultry market in the world.
Ride-hailing services have gone global, and even women in Saudi Arabia – only recently given the right to drive – are getting in on the action. In this June 2018 photo, a female driver for Careem, a regional ride-hailing Uber competitor, is seen behind the wheel.
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Canada is simply a consumer of ride-hailing services, and has not established any of its own Ubers or Lyfts, even as tiny countries like Estonia get in on the game. That needs to change.
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As they shook off a particularly unpleasant colonial hangover, the justices of India’s Supreme Court issued a remarkably emotional set of judgments.
The myth of the empty sea is largely the product of European imperialisms and their map-making.
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A new project takes a different look at the role of oceans.
Old Delhi skyline.
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The case for pragmatism, not dogma.
A protest in New Delhi against the arbitrary exclusion of Indian citizens from the National Register of Citizens in August 2018.
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Shifting parameters for citizenship are at risk of excluding millions from Indian citizenship.
Many rural communities across Africa have dropped kerosene lighting for various electrical lights.
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A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that’s occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
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Staying at home puts women at greater risk of health problems – cities need to change to encourage them to go outside.
US President Donald Trump is accused of siding with white right wing groups on South Africa’s land reform issue.
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The US president’s comments about South Africa’s land reform stem from his view that whites are under attack from blacks.