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    World Bank probes Tata tea project over worker abuse in India

    Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:47 PM

    Investigators sent in after NGOs allege labour and human rights abuses at tea plantations jointly financed by World Bank and Tata Global Beverages with aim of promoting worker shareholding

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    Indian women rally to back demand for more seats in parliament

    Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:38 PM

    Indian women are pushing male lawmakers to stop blocking a landmark bill that would guarantee women one-third of the seats in national and regional assemblies and give them a launchpad for women-friendly legislation in future

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    Environmentalists slam India government over failure on mining law

    Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:15 PM

    Indian government's failure to push through key mining law before forthcoming election is a victory for vested interests in the deeply corrupt mining sector, leading environmental group says

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    Ending the beatings, rapes, murders: where are India's men?

    Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:32 PM

    India has a dire record on violence against women, but few gender equality groups think of inviting men to join them, seeing men as the enemy rather than people capable of changing their ways

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    Using rape as an excuse for moral policing in India

    Thu, 6 Feb 2014 10:45 AM

    Horrific gang rape of an Indian student in Dec 2012 has led to conservative backlash and greater moral policing

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    India's new political star would keep all-male village 'courts'

    Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:23 AM

    New Delhi chief minister supports women's rights but says he would not ban 'village councils' - all-male 'courts' that maintain order in India's deeply conservative countryside and often mete out harsh treatment to women.

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    Lower-caste people get less aid when disaster strikes - report

    Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:29 PM

    Disasters affect lower-caste people particularly harshly, first because they are more vulnerable, and second because they get less aid or compensation for losses than others, a new report says

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    Delhi law minister accused of racism, sexism towards Africans

    Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:02 PM

    Attempt by Delhi's new law minister to show that city police are corrupt and incompetent backfires when rights groups attack him over a raid he made on an apartment housing Nigerian and Ugandan women

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    Indian woman says village court ordered her gang rape

    Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:08 PM

    Gang rape in West Bengal village underlines power of informal village courts and is latest in a series of violent crimes against women that have led to mounting criticism of the state's first woman chief minister

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    Bangladesh crackdown damages human rights - HRW

    Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:16 PM

    The Bangladesh government's excessive violence in suppressing protests and silencing opposition made 2013 a bad year for human rights in the country, an HRW report said - but a government minister said this was not true and the report was biased

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