Month: November 2017

Girls sit inside the Life Line Trust orphanage in Salem in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on June 20, 2013. Credit: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters

Decent Toilets for Women and Girls Vital for Gender Equality

Tim Wainwright 19/11/2017

Being denied access to safe, private toilets is particularly...

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The Passions and Requests of an Earnest Entomophilatelist

S. Ramani 19/11/2017

While many countries have been producing postage stamps with...

Girls cover their faces to protect themselves from the stench of a filthy and malfunctioning restroom in their school. at this school, girls have no toilets of their own and their only option is to use the ones on the far side of the buildings where the boys study. They do not have locking doors and are several minutes’ walk from a water point. ©2017 Credit: Paula Bronstein for Human Rights Watch

Girls in Afghanistan, and Everywhere Else, Need Toilets

Heather Barr and Amanda Klasing 19/11/2017

Lack of access to clean, safe, private toilets is...

Indu Siva Ranjani. Credit: The Life of Science

Finding the Right Materials for Buildings of the Future

Nandita Jayaraj 19/11/2017

A civil engineer at IIT Guwahati talks about her...

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To Clean Delhi’s Air, NTPC’s Badarpur Plant Must Be Shut Down

Kapil Subramanian 18/11/2017

The NCR must seize the possibilities of reclaiming Badarpur...

The US military experimented on about 60,000 enlisted soldiers to study the effects of mustard gas, exposure that affected the health of veterans for the rest of their lives. Courtesy: United States Library of Congress

The Soldiers Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the US Military, Then Discarded

Jessica Huseman, ProPublica 18/11/2017

During the Second World War, the government subjected thousands...

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Why Brexit’s Impact on Asian Researchers Is a Matter of Concern

Aswin Sekhar 18/11/2017

If the UK withdraws from the Horizon 2020 programme...