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  The Pain Of Lost Innocence

  by Shashank Saurav May 8, 2013

    Today more than half of Indian children face child abuse at least once in their lifetime. The New Delhi rape of ‘Gudiya’ showed that child abuse is rampant across the country. The use of cyberspace ...

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  Bollywood And Gender Violence

  by Meghana Bhatt - Global Mind April 2, 2013

  The proliferation of sexual violence and female oppression in India is truly disturbing. The Times of India recently reported that 95% of women in Delhi and the surrounding areas feel unsafe outdoors. While the recent ...

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  The Pink Face Of Indian Vigilantism

  by The Global Journal March 26, 2013

  The horrific gang-rape of a 23 year-old physiology student in a moving bus shortly after nightfall on December 16 in New Delhi has laid bare the failure of the Indian state to carry out one ...

• The Return of the Veil

  by Ziyoda Kurbanova January 8, 2013

  A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East To America, Leila Ahmed, Yale University Press, $30.00. The hijab is back – on an increasing number of women’s heads, and as a ...

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  Which Way Forward in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka?

  by Raksha Vasudevan - Global Minds October 22, 2012

  Lessons from the So-Called ‘Powerless’ Women of the North. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced last month it was closing down operations in Sri Lanka, where in 2009 it had run the world ...

• All Remedies for Syria Exhausted – Why Don't We Try a Woman?

  by Silvia Danielak September 5, 2012

  No stone has been left unturned – or so it seems. Syria is experiencing a full-scale civil war. If Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, the world's most eminent diplomatic figure and renowned mediator resigned ...

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  Firliania Purwanti - The O Project

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Talking about sex and orgasms in Indonesia’s Muslim society is taboo. But this is exactly what Firliana Purwanti, a human rights activist and development practitioner, is doing. Not only is she talking about orgasms ...

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  Kasha Nabagesera - LGBT Activist

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Being gay in Uganda could soon attract the death penalty. Knowing and not reporting that your sister is a lesbian could soon be punishable with a prison sentence. Kasha Nabagesera is the founder and head ...

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  The New Global Generation of Female Change-Makers

  by The Global Journal May 14, 2012

  Pessimism seems to have spread across the globe. With high rates of youth unemployment, unfulfilled promises in the wake of the reformist zeal of the Arab Spring, and ongoing financial and economic crisis, leaders and ...

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  The New Frontier

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  The End of Straight Supremacy, Realizing Gay Liberation, Shannon Gilreath, Cambridge University Press, $26.95/£18.99 Shannon Gilreath writes his new book with a certain fire that is at first sight off-putting. Throughout, Gilreath ...

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