Category: India

Day 1 After International Women’s Day – Still Celebrating, Still Advocating

March 9, 2017

At only 17-yr old, Malala Yousafzai was the youngest recipient, at the time in 2014, as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her courageous advocacy of girls education in her home region of Swat District, Pakistan. Blogged for BBC as early as 11-yr old and almost died from being assassinated by a Taliban soldier when … More Day 1 After International Women’s Day – Still Celebrating, Still Advocating

Women in Mauritius Making ‘Geminist’ T-shirts Earning Less than the ‘Living Wage’ Set by the Government

November 28, 2014

By BEN ELLERY AND NICK CRAVEN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY on November 8, 2014— “The women paid 62p an hour in Mauritius making £45 ‘feminist’ T-shirts earn less than the ‘living wage’ set by the government of the Indian Ocean island. After our revelations last week about the ‘sweatshop’ conditions endured by workers producing the … More Women in Mauritius Making ‘Geminist’ T-shirts Earning Less than the ‘Living Wage’ Set by the Government

INDIA: At Least 500 Child Soldiers Fighting

April 15, 2014

© Photo: Flickr.com/jonmallard/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 Published by Voice of Russia on March 26, 2014— “The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report, “India’s Child Soldiers”, released on Thursday, said at least 3,000 children are members of militant outfits and 500 of them are in the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. Insurgent armies in India’s restive … More INDIA: At Least 500 Child Soldiers Fighting

Irish Business People ‘Buy’ Indian Children to Save Them From Brothels

October 24, 2013

By Niamh Horan on October 20, 2013— “Irish business people are “buying” babies and young girls in order to rescue them from brothels in an infamous Indian red-light district where they are kept in cages and auctioned off for sex to the highest bidder, the Sunday Independent has learnt. A young Irishman, Marc Carey, is … More Irish Business People ‘Buy’ Indian Children to Save Them From Brothels