by YGB | Nov 13, 2019 | Global News
“Don’t tell your girls to wear decent clothes – tell your boys to behave,” reads a sign at a vigil for the victim of a brutal 2012 gangrape in New Delhi (Credit: Getty Images) Every day around the world, 137 women are killed by an intimate partner or a...
by YGB | Aug 1, 2019 | Global News
Protesters in New Delhi on Tuesday demanded an investigation after a woman who had accused a regional lawmaker of rape was severely injured in a road accident. Credit Danish Siddiqui/Reuters Many times over the past year, a young woman from northern India who...
by YGB | Jul 24, 2019 | Global News
A participant has the words “not in my name” painted on face during a protest against two recently reported rape cases as protestors gather near the Parliament in New Delhi, India, April 15, 2018. Violent crimes against women have been on the rise in India...
by YGB | Jul 16, 2019 | Global News
Indian students and activists participate in a protest against two recent rapes in New Delhi, India, April 12, 2018. Placard in Hindi reads, “Women have only one demand, the society should be violence free.” (Altaf Qadri/AP) Self-defense training...
by YGB | Jul 10, 2019 | Global News
A homeless woman helps her son Farmaan with his homework as they sit on a bicycle cart, their belongings hanging on a wall, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Some 800 million people in the country live in poverty, many of them migrating to big cities in...
by YGB | Jun 26, 2019 | Global News
Students in Kerala, India, found a creative way to turn weeds into sustainable sanitary pads this school year. In October 2018, 10th-grade girls from Ahammed Kurikkal Memorial Higher Secondary School entered the National Children Science Competition. The competition...
