Lighting the Way to Women’s Economic Empowerment
The women of East and Northeast India no longer need to fear the dark. ONergy,…
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The Secret Life of Textiles: Plant Fibers
Fibers are the most important components of a textile. Everything related to the production of…
Indian Women Are Fighting Gun Violence
Binalakshmi Nepram Thinks Americans Can Do It, Too Binalakshmi Nepram was born in the Manipur…
Taking arms – The Asia-Pacific region is at peace—but it is buying a lot of weapons
THOUGH parts of Asia are racked by long-running insurgencies, terrorist groups, banditry or low-level civil…
First they shot her husband. Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her hands next, Mary didn’t think it could get any worse.
Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South Sudan, caught up…
Women’s rights: These nine laws make Indian women less equal than men
A recent UN report studying India’s legal code lists all the ways laws officially support…
India’s ‘gun widows’ on the road to recovery
Young widows who have lost husbands to gun violence face financial, legal and social hardships…
16 Women who are standing up to violence
Violence takes many forms. The pernicious abuses behind closed doors, hidden by family members in…
India retains world’s largest weapons importer tag
China, the third largest arms exporter and importer, sold most of its weapons to Pakistan,…
How to plan a post-war transition to a gender-just peace
When you consider the many theatres of conflict in India—insurgencies, militarised zones like Kashmir and…
In Myanmar there will be no democratic transition without women
Will Myanmar create inclusive political processes that address gender inequality in the country’s social, economic…
Discriminating against women keeps countries poorer
In 100 countries around the world, women are barred from doing certain work solely because…