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#India -14 Dalit Students left school for ever due to discrimination in Odisha #Racism

Monday, August 26, 2013 Report by Akshya Rout, Jajpur: In the latest caste-bound controversy in Odisha‘s Jajpur district, over a dozen of dalit students left a government-run upper primary school for good while registering their protest against the removal of… Continue Reading →

#India – Outside Mumbai, Reports of Rape Buried in Pages of Newspapers #Vaw

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press People watching as youth demonstrate on Sunday against the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was a familiar scene in the lower house of the Indian Parliament on Monday as Sushma… Continue Reading →

Swazi Chiefs Shut Women Out of Parliament #Vaw #Womenrights #WTFnews

  By Mantoe PhakathiReprint | Women in Swaziland’s Ekwendzeni Chiefdom register to vote for the primary election. Analysts say that chauvinistic practices are being used to prevent women from participating in the Aug. 24 elections. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPS MBABANE, Aug 21 2013… Continue Reading →

#India – Can we stop feeding the beast? #Media #Gender #Reporting #Vaw

In its desperate race to feed news-hungry 24/7 media channels and print media outlets fighting for circulation, the media is consuming itself. There’s no evidence of editorial gate-keeping, says GEETA SESHU, hoot.org  Posted/Updated Tuesday, Aug 27 12:43:31, 2013 The gang-rape of the photojournalist… Continue Reading →

#India – FTII students get nationwide backing against ABVP attack

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013, 2:52 IST | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA Omkar Rege Institutes such as the Hyderabad University, National Institute of Design, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute lend their support to the protest Students of FTII take… Continue Reading →

U.S. Prepares to Attack Syria – 60% of Americans Are Against It, Obama Has No UN Approval

No Proof of Who Was Behind Gas Attacks Any moves to bomb Syria risk further American involvement in a brutal civil war that has spiraled out of control. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com August 26, 2013  |  ALTERNET The U.S. is giving all… Continue Reading →

#India – Kandhamal biggest anti christian violence , Five Years Later: Why The Silence?

By K.P. Sasi 25 August, 2013 Countercurrents.org What is it that makes human beings express more violence than animals? This is certainly a significant question we may ask in our journey called life. While the animals express violence for food,… Continue Reading →

#India – Gujarat Cops force dalit girl to marry her Rapist #Vaw #WTFnews

Cops pressing me to marry rapist: Victim Vijaysinh Parmar, TNN Aug 24, 2013, 04.32AM IST RAJKOT: A shocking case of police insensitivity in dealing with rape victim, a minor, has come to light in a village of Amreli district. Parents of… Continue Reading →

#India- Aadhaar centre laptops stolen, and so is your identity #UID #WTFnews

  DC |       Hyderabad: Thieves entered an Aadhaar Centre in the Gram Panchayat, Shamshabad, and scooted with laptops used by the authorities to enrol and save the details of the applicants.     The thieves also took… Continue Reading →

#India – Where is POSCO headed?

Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-26 Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle A file photo from 2011 shows women and children holding ground in Gobindapur village… Continue Reading →

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