While Child Domestic Labor does not come under the scope of the worst types of labor , recent reports especially coming out from South Asia relate horrific stories, writes Sabin Muzaffar Over 160 million children worldwide are estimated to be in child labor: 63 million girls and 97 million boys and this too ...
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Editorial: Ramblings of a digital, armchair warrior
Sitting thousands of miles away in a land of privilege and safety, one might easily be labeled an armchair digital warrior. Taking refuge and solace (perhaps) in the cliché, pen is mightier than the sword, an attempt must be made to find some semblance of sanity during these dark, chaotic times in the land of...
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Finding my career through the digital
Being a digitally empowered woman enabled me to get an opportunity to work in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) space which was an area l was aspiring to be part of. I didn’t know how that would happen given my academic background was in Food Processing Technology, and sharing my academic background was...
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Media Unchained
HIStory tells us revolutions are often bloody. They are usually tainted with propaganda, hate, with the entire governmental machinery working aggressively against them. It is not just colonial but human legacy how the establishment have clamped down freedoms of expression and movement, freedoms not only given by ironically the countrys own constitutions but...
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Grief Is The Window Through Which Light Enters
Decide today whether you want to live with me or your Ammi, uttered my father while I was boarding the school bus to take my Grade III Science Exam one dreary winter morning. I didnt feel anything at that time; or maybe I felt so much that it is still the highlight of my life....
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On Freedom, Ideas of Feminism and Respectable Limitations
It’s hard to explain to others what it’s like to go through life as a woman. I am constantly reminded of the obstacles and limitations that have been placed on me simply because of my gender. It’s not just the overt harassment and discrimination that I face on a daily basis, but also the subtle...
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I love being a woman but it gets hard sometimes
In her journal, my mother wrote about how lucky she was that her father had taken her to school despite this not being a common practice during that time. Having lived in a rural area all her life, going to school in the city was the utmost privilege. She ended up settling in the city...
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Hardships are meant to make you not break you
Although life is always uncertain, I didn’t fully understand its significance until I experienced it. My mother passed away when I was a teenager and, on my way, to completing my O levels. I felt stunned by how abrupt and unexpected it was. Being the family’s eldest daughter, I was now expected to handle the...
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Challenging Poverty & Racism Through Vision
The article is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making in the fields of development and eye health. You can check out the special edition here. In Australia, 35 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never had an eye exam. Vision loss...
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Iranian Womens Identity in Resistance
Click to flip through this special publication. – an Empower Program Project.