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‘Sea of people’ at Shaheen Bagh as protest against citizenship law nears a month

On Sunday, the streets leading to Shaheen Bagh in southeast Delhi were jam-packed with people, heading to support the women protesting against the citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens. The protest, which started nearly a month ago, is only gaining momentum with time.

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Survivors’ tale: This film shows how Myanmar planned ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya

Two years after hundreds of thousands of Myanmar’s Muslim ethnic minority were forced to flee in a military-led crackdown, a new film called Mechanics of a Crime, reveals their persecution was premeditated. It comes as thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh agreed to be relocated on Sunday.

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Hafta Letters: Of pandiculations and known unknowns

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Respecting women’s rights is a guarantee to reduce maternal and child mortality: Dr Michelle Bachelet

Dr Michelle Bachelet, (left-wing revolutionary imprisoned by the military dictator Augusto Pinochet), two-time president of Chile (2006-2010, 2014-2018), first Executive Director of UN Women, took over as the Chair of the Board of Partnership for Maternal, New Born and Child Health (PMNCH) speaks to ICFJ Fellow Biraj Swain on the…

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Delhi’s Yamuna: A huge septic tank

Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed out that India generated nearly 5 per cent of electronic waste produced globally in 2016.

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Mind of a rapist

The largest international study on rape, carried out by the United Nations for two years involving 10,000 men from Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka, was published in 2013. The study found that rape is not a rarity: one in four men interviewed had raped someone…

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Since Modi can’t stop talking about Nehru, here’s Nehru talking back

Deep inside Teen Murti Bhavan last night, the lights began to flicker. Strains of Leonard Cohen’s Chelsea Hotel #2 could be heard echoing throughout the building. Suddenly, a mysterious figure appeared over a former Prime Minister’s desk. The figure ran his ghostly hands through the desk like he was quite…

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Inside Zaatari: Syrian refugees turn desert into one of the world's largest refugee camps

In the dusty desert of northern Jordan a city has emerged out of the sand. Two years ago Syrian families began arriving here, fleeing war and persecution in their homeland. Almost overnight the United Nations was forced to set up a refugee camp and what started as a few tents…

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