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TECH FOR GOOD + In the first of  Tech for Good + Gender-Based Violence articles, an interview with ElsaMarie D’Silva, founder and managing director of Safecity, a non-profit organisation providing an online platform and grassroots […]

Hindustan Times Gautaman Bhaskaran Pankaj Johar’s Cecilia is centred around the issue of child trafficking in India. The film will be screened at the MAMI (in the 2016 edition) Cecilia alongwith Pankaj Johar and his […]

Two new books — “Leftover in China” and “The Heart Is a Shifting Sea” — look to China and India, respectively, to assess how marriage withstands breakneck economic growth, social change and the increasing financial independence of women.

Nobel Laureate, Economist Amartya Sen, in way back 1990’s introduced the term “missing women”, showing a deficit in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region.

Source: Aljazeera Meerut, India – The massacre took place on May 22, 1987, the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The families of Hashimpura – a predominantly Muslim locality in the city of […]

The quest for expanding the membership of the UN Security Council has taken various turns since the last and only expansion in 1965. The Council’s response and lack of response to the developments following the Arab Spring and the Ukraine Crisis have rejuvenated discussions on reforms globally.

In July, Arundhati Roy provoked outrage from many quarters by stating that the generally accepted image of Mahatma Gandhi was a lie. Speaking at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, she also called for institutions bearing his name to be renamed.

Source: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights created this Annotated Bibliography for the Women’s Regional Network to provide a guide to the landscape of academic research […]