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Caste inequity fuels gender injustice

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It is important to recognize how gender injustices underpin the caste, class and social inequities. "I did start going to school. But as I am a Dalit (untouchable), I was made to sit away from the rest of the children. If I touched some upper caste child, even by mistake, I would be thrashed by the teachers - who were all Brahmins (upper caste). Even as a child I could feel the upper caste-Dalit divide.

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Domestic violence survivor faced challenges

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Domestic violence survivor faced challenges headlong and reclaimed her power back

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

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Justice delayed is justice denied

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Justice delayed is justice denied, says domestic violence survivor

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

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Yemen’s Calamity Is Of Damning Proportions

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It is hard to imagine that along with the catastrophe that has been inflicted on Syria for the past six years, another calamity is unfolding in Yemen of damning proportions while

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Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Blues and Revolt

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I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and your work

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Stabilizing trans-frontier migration

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Following each other closely, beginning with the 2 July 2017 meeting in Bamako, Mali of the G-5 Sahel (Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger) with the additional presence of Emmanuel Macron, President of France, followed by a meeting of the Ministers of the Interior of the 28-member European Union, followed by the G20 Heads of State in Hamburg, Germany, the challenge of the stabilization of socio-economic conditions in Africa to help halt the migration to Eur

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