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“I want to tell all the women gathered to never lose courage and give up any fight for justice,” exhorted social worker-activist Bhanwari Devi of Rajasthan. She was speaking soon after being conferred the Laadli Iconic Rural Feminist Award…

Journalism Fellowship in Child Protection 2023. Rita Bhowmick, Daily Kalbela, received Breaking the Silence award as the best journalist in print media for reporting on child protection sensitivity, rights, social awareness raising.

A recent petition in the Supreme Court asking for the source code of EVMs was dismissed. But there are important questions that remain about the code, the importance of making it public and other software deployed for the machines.

Zakia, originally from Afghanistan's Loghar province, has been living in Pakistan since 2014 with her three sons and a daughter. As she contemplates returning to Afghanistan, Zakia is haunted by the traumatic events that forced her to…

Bhutan’s much-touted happiness rating lies atop a bed of pain. The pain of Bhutanese refugees of Nepali origin. I know, because I am one of them.

As many as 103 editors and journalist from across India from various media houses and news agencies across the spectrum and across media platforms in an urgent appeal have appealed fellow editors and journalists to ensure that Manipur stays…

This is an urgent appeal to editors and fellow journalists to ensure that Manipur stays in the news. After more than two months of unprecedented civic strife and violence, events in this state have gone off the front pages.

Zarifa Ghafari made history in 2018 when she became the first woman mayor for Maidan Shahr, the capital of Maidan Wardak province. She would be only the second woman mayor in Afghanistan’s history.

With more than 80 dead and about 35,000 fleeing home, recent violence in multi-ethnic Manipur, one of India’s most diverse states, has shattered years of tenuous coexistence and fractured bonds between majority Metei and tribal communities.…

While 6,520 internally displaced people from Manipur have taken shelter in Mizoram, another 1,400 camped in Assam’s Cachar.