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Five Milestones For Women’s Rights We Should Achieve In 2015

This year will see the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995 in Beijing, which produced a blueprint for advancing women’s rights.  20 years on, what  still needs to be done for women?
by Sneha Nanavati
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No More Abuse: Guantanamo Releases Prisoners

“Anybody with real combat experience understands that torture is counterproductive.” – F. Andy Messing, retired major U.S. Special Forces and director of the National Defence Council ———̵...
by Sneha Nanavati
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The role of the media in Jessica Lal’s murder case

With the advent of media in every sphere of human life, even the last bastion of protection from prying eyes – the judiciary – seems to have fallen. Trial by media made famous, or infamous, by the O.J. Simpson murde...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Paradise lost: The displacement of Kashmiri pandits

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all the murderers are punished unless they kill in large number and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire On January 19, 1990, the biggest ever exodus of people  since the...
by Sneha Nanavati
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International day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the holocaust

Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Amelia Earhart: An inspiration for women everywhere

“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”                                                                [&h...
by Sneha Nanavati
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WATCH: A world without children

On 16 December 2014, seven members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Picture this: You wake up, do your daily chores and say good-by...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Influential women in the tech industry

Women in the technology sector face a whole host of obstacles to success. Structural sexism is widely reported, with 52% of women saying they are paid less for the same job. Zero women executive boards appear to be the norm, a...
by Sneha Nanavati
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The Future Of Human Rights In Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah’s death ends a fourteen-and-a-half year reign that saw marginal policy changes, particularly of those which relate to human rights.
by Sneha Nanavati
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