India
A Female Approach to Peacekeeping
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — When darkness comes to Congo Town, women in crisp uniforms take the streets, patrolling with Kalashnikov rifles and long, black hair tucked into baby-blue caps.
India: Women Advocate Against Honour Killings & For Free Choice Marriages
New Delhi - Honour killings in north India are making the headlines with sickening regularity. The unexplained death of Nirupama Pathak in her Jharkhand home is just one incident.
India: Single Women Resist Stigma - Demand Rights
India - Single Women Resist Stigma, Demand Rights
By: Swapna Majumdar
Correspondent - January 10, 2010
INDIA - MORE GIRLS ARE REFUSING TO BECOME CHILD BRIDES
Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18.
India - "Holiday Brides" Abandoned by Husbands in UK, US, Canada
"Holiday brides" in India have been deserted by husbands from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
By Soraya Roberts
November 23, 2009
INDIA - LOST BRIDES - ARRANGED MARRIAGES GONE AWRY
India Brides Left Behind by Overseas Husbands
Sandeep Kaur calls the volume that holds her 30-page collection of wedding photos a book of lies.
India's third gender gets own identity in voter rolls
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian election authorities Thursday granted what they called an independent identity to intersex and transsexuals in the country's voter lists.
Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India
Footage of 'witches' being abused by a mob in India
India: Girl beheaded by neighbour to 'help conception'
India: Girl beheaded by neighbour to 'help conception' (The Telegraph via WUNRN)
Attacks on Indian women signal rising conservatism
Mumbai: An assault on women in a pub, a kidnapping of a Hindu girl for sitting next to a Muslim boy, harassing of canoodling couples by the police and the public.