Mothers-To-Be are Desperate in The Philippines
Two of the women have a rather intimate contact with my family - they come every week to wash and iron for the household. Five active adults in the family add up to a rather voluminous pile of dirty clothes every day.
The Domestic Violence Bill Termed a Good Piece of Legislation
The reasons range from pressures from the religious lobby to civil society organisations admitting to 'having been short of activism', to certain politicians blaming the Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry for the lapse.
Nepal’s New Constitution Will Not Be Written on Time
With just 10 weeks remaining in the term of the Constituent Assembly, the body charged primarily with writing a new constitution, it is clear the assembly will fail to deliver on time.
Zoroastrians Keep Old Traditions Alive in Australia
Many Zoroastrians from Persia migrated to India around 10th century A.D. to escape Arab-Muslim persecution and came to be referred as Parsis.
The Chhaupadi System of Nepal and International Women’s Day
Thus the question is not if equal rights bring progress, but how to transform the entrenched myths which stop a human being from accessing rights first?
