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Battleground Body: Sexism and the Right to Safe Abortions in India

Sanhati Banerjee 11/09/2022

Social censorship along with patriarchal morality embedded in the...

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Abortion in India Is Still Mediated by Institutional Moral Policing

Akshita Prasad 22/07/2022

The language used while the Delhi high court heard...

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Why Rattan Manjari Fights for Tribal Women’s Land Rights in Himachal Pradesh

Vandana K 11/12/2019

When Manjari was 23, she was elected the first...

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In RTI Findings, Mixed Picture of PM Scheme for Malnourished Mothers

Sanjoy Basu, Neeraj Kumar and Shashi Shekhar 08/04/2019

In Odisha, only five mothers were registered, which means...

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The Curious Case of the Sanitary Napkin GST Exemption

Rajul Awasthi 10/08/2018

The GST exemption of sanitary napkins may lead to...

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Abortion, Contraception and Pregnancy: How Women’s Bodies Became a Battlezone

Sophie Cousins 24/09/2017

Women’s reproductive rights are under attack across the globe....

A demonstrator in favour of abortion holds a placard that reads, "I support abortion" during a session at Chile's Chamber of Deputies to approve a bill of the government to legalise abortion in certain cases, in Valparaiso, Chile July 20, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Rodrigo Garrido

Chile’s Bid to Ease Abortion Ban Hits Roadblock

Reuters 21/07/2017

Chile's Chamber of Deputies fell one vote short of...