Human Rights

Katherine Johnson: Advanced Human Rights With A Slide And Pencil

When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between. Later, when my fellow flight students and I, in tr...

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Playschools Will Have To Play By The Rules: Panel

Panaji: The education division of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has framed guidelines to regulate private playschools for children in the age ...

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In 2016, Hindi Literature Became The Voice Of the Marginalised

Who reads Hindi literature these days? And who writes it? For a language rightly claiming to be spoken by more than 400 million people, such questions seem astonishing. But th...

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Women Farmers In Northern India Battle Tradition, Self-Doubt To Own Land

Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. But she ...

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Here’s How Hospitals Are Trying To Improve Accessibility For Visually Impaired Patients

India is taking great strides to provide accessibility to the disabled in the country. However, the medical centre unfortunately seems to have a lot of ground to cover. Anoush...

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Remembering Savitribai Phule, Who Fought For Women’s Rights In 19th Century India

Today is the 186th birth anniversary of Savitribai Jyotirao Phule, considered to be one of India’s renowned social reformers and educationists. Phule, who was born in 18...

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Human Rights And Health Inequality. A Worldwide Phenomenon

A purely biomedical understanding of diminished health and preventable mortality misses key dimensions of social and economic issues.1. The differences in health statistics th...

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Education Above All, Gavi Reach Underserved Communities With Education And Immunization

Sometimes the development world creates an opportunity for seemingly strange bedfellows. Such cross-sectoral collaborations between different organizations can then emerge at ...

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Ashoka's Bill Drayton: Every Child Needs To Be A Changemaker

Everyone can be a changemaker and it is never too early too start. That is the premise that global non-profit Ashoka says is behind its new LeadYoung initiative, which seeks t...

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Corruption, Caste Keep Poor From Owning Land In Northern India

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - whic...

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JJ SCHOOL’S FREEDOM ART REVEALED

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores how JJ School of Art students captured India’s fr...

August 11 2026

OHH MY DOG: LOVE, LOYALTY, LOSS

Canine Loyalty Meets A Darker Tale of Loss, Courage and Justice. Arnab Banerjee reviews ...

August 10 2026

INDEPENDENT CINEMA FINDS ITS AUDIENCE

At WIFF 2025, Kabeer Khurana, Deepa Gahlot and Siddharth Kak examined independent cinema...

August 9 2026