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UNMENTIONABLES! SILENCE AND STIGMA, HYGIENE AND HEALTH

adminNovember 4, 2026November 4, 2026018 mins

The article examines the challenges of sanitation, menstrual hygiene and unequal access to clean toilets in India. Through personal accounts, community initiatives and policy developments, it highlights caste-based discrimination, poor sanitation infrastructure, menstrual stigma and the need for dignity, gender equality and sustainable sanitation systems. Modern civilisation has turned unproblematic natural phenomena into insurmountable problems….

Beyond the Showpiece: Can India’s Public Toilets Be Designed for Everyone?

Yatharth PathakOctober 12, 202606 mins

Cities are building toilets from scrap buses and recycled plastic. The harder test is whether dignity reaches the women, transgender persons and informal workers who depend on public sanitation most. A scrap bus at Bengaluru’s Majestic terminal now serves as a women-only toilet with Indian and Western commodes, a sanitary-napkin vending machine, a burner and…

Locked Out, Counted Out: Afghan Girls and the World’s Unfinished Fight for Women’s Rights

Yatharth PathakOctober 11, 2026October 11, 202608 mins

Five years after the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan remains the only country barring girls from secondary school. Its crisis is extreme, but no society has finished the job. UNICEF estimates that one in five girls worldwide is married before 18, and that more than 12 million are married every year, roughly one every three seconds. That…

India’s Higher Education Boom: More Seats, Bigger Gaps

adminSeptember 3, 202607 mins

New AISHE data by the Press Information Bureau show record growth in universities, enrolment and gender parity over the past decade — but faculty representation, caste and tribal proportionality, and disability access have not kept pace. India’s higher education system expanded faster in the decade to 2023-24 than in almost any comparable period since independence,…

When the First Responders Fall: How Aid Cuts Are Dismantling Women’s Organizations, From Kabul to Kolkata

adminJuly 27, 2026July 28, 2026017 mins

A woman fleeing violence arrives at a shelter to find the door locked and the lights off. A pregnant woman walks for hours because the nearest clinic has closed. A mother is turned away from a food line. These are not hypothetical scenes from a distant war. According to Beyond the Breaking Point, the UN…

Leaking Pipeline: Gender Bias drives Women Out of Medicine – in India and Beyond

adminJuly 25, 2026July 25, 202608 mins

India is losing thousands of trained women doctors before they reach specialization or leadership roles. This growing gender gap affects not only medical careers but also access to quality healthcare for millions of women.

Below Replacement: India’s and the World’s Declining Fertility – Insights from a 73-Nation UN Survey

adminJuly 14, 2026July 14, 202609 mins

India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement level, reflecting a global demographic shift. A new UNFPA survey across 73 countries shows that financial insecurity, housing costs, and gender inequality—not changing family aspirations—are driving declining birth rates.

Higher Education Enrolment in India Crosses 4.5 crore, but it’s a Tale of Unequal Gains

adminJuly 13, 2026July 14, 2026011 mins

In 2023-24, as many as 4.50 crore students enrolled in India’s higher education sector, as compared to 3.42 crore in 2014-15, as shown by the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) reports for 2022-23 and 2023-24 published on Sunday July 8, 2026 by the Union Ministry of Education. A total of 1,289 universities, 48,246…

UNICEF Unveils its New Global Strategy for Gender Equality, With Adolescent Girls Top Priority – An Uneven Picture from the Data of Asia

adminJuly 10, 2026July 10, 202608 mins

The UN Children’s Fund has adopted a new four-year Gender Equality Action Plan, 2026-2029. The Executive Board of the UN Children’s Fund has approved UNICEF’s fourth four-year Gender Equality Action Plan, 2026-2029, which complements the 2026-2029 UNICEF Integrated Budget of $26 billion and UNICEF’s Global Strategy 2026-2029. The global plan also focuses on the world’s…

The Hidden Labour Behind Modern India

adminJuly 9, 2026July 9, 202607 mins

In the story of India’s rise, one form of labour remains largely unseen: unpaid care work. As Indian women advance in education, careers, and public life, they continue to be assigned primary responsibility for day-to-day cooking, cleaning, the care of the elderly, the young, and the disabled, and for household coordination. That concealed labour is…