Since the Taliban's takeover in August 2021, Afghan women and girls have faced severe regression in their rights and freedoms, reverting to the pre-2002 era. The advances made over the past two decades have been swiftly undone, with women banned from education, employment, and public spaces. Restricted to their homes and subjected to a stringent dress code, they live under constant threat and surveillance
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The war and increasing gender violence in Afghanistan have also had a disproportionate effect on women who have been compelled to flee the country and search for ‘homes’ elsewhere. But their journey and struggle to find a safe home elsewhere has been intersectional and much more complicated than what meets the eye
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With the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan women and girls’ lives have changed drastically, to the point that many are calling it a Gender Apartheid
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The woman officer has reported experiencing ongoing harassment, sexual assault, and mental torture over the past two years, primarily at the hands of authorities at the Air Force Station in Srinagar.
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The order comes as coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing pressure to take a tougher stance on irregular migration.
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The caste census is generating heated debate, but even its most ardent proponents are not able to articulate a plan about how to use the resulting data
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While the NDA allies and social justice party leaders like Chirag Paswan and Ramdas Athawale have opposed the Supreme Court decision allowing sub-categorisation among SC-STs, the Opposition parties including the Congress have maintained a strategic silence.
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Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own 'reconversion' drive
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The recent SC ruling on sub-classification within the SC and ST categories temporarily lifted the hopes of tribal communities in Jharkhand
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As of September 2, 184 Maoist deaths have been reported in India in 2024. This is the highest number of Naxalite deaths in a year since 2009
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