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Society & Culture News tagged with India

Rama's Bridge: The 30-Mile Sandbank That Divides Two Cultures
Society & Culture  (tags: News, myths, India, Sri Lanka, bridge )

Katie
- 39 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Rama's Bridge, also called Adam's Bridge, is a 30-mile-stretch (48 km) of 103 sandbanks that form a natural connection between the island of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, India and Mannar in northwestern Sri Lanka.
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Take Action: Prevent Child Marriage
Society & Culture  (tags: world, politics, government, humanrights, freedoms, society, women, children, marriage, brides, pedophiles, culture, family, law, abuse, crime, africa, middle east, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, India )

Tom
- 207 days ago - my.care.org
The costs of child marriages are high. Societies cannot progress when the common practice of marriage relegates girls to a life of poverty. Ask your representatives to co-sponsor the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009.
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Marriage of Saudi Arabian Girl, Eight, Annulled
Society & Culture  (tags: world, politics, government, humanrights, freedoms, society, women, children, marriage, brides, pedophiles, culture, family, law, abuse, crime, africa, middle east, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, India )

Tom
- 207 days ago - guardian.co.uk
An eight-year old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to a man in his 50s has had the union annulled, it was reported yesterday. The case, which had generated local and international outrage, ended with an out-of-court settlement.
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India's Caste System
Society & Culture  (tags: India, Caste System, Human Rights )

Ben
- 227 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A landmark legal ruling which granted India's downtrodden 'untouchables' the right to defend their reputations has been hailed as a symbolic victory for the country's lower castes.
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Human Right Watch Accuses Indian Anti-Maoist Group of Human Rights Abuses
Society & Culture  (tags: human rights, india )

Michael
- 499 days ago - voanews.com
A human rights group has accused a state-backed, anti-Maoist group of widespread rights abuses against villagers in central India.
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Meet Tony (The Miracle Boy) And The Shanthi Street Kids ~ Now At Care2
Society & Culture  (tags: shanthistreetkids, india, tony, Phocomelia, abused, abandoned.humans, society, environment, children, world )


- 646 days ago - care2.com
Tony is a miracle child The first miracle being that he was allowed to live after being born into a very poor family with his severe disabilities - for the second reason, that he was taken to an orphanage and given the chance to grow up and the third rea
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10 Million Indian Girls Killed in 20 Years - India
Society & Culture  (tags: babies, females, girls, india, abortion, sex choice )

Chrissy
- 827 days ago - news.com.au
THE widespread use of illegal tests to determine the sex of an unborn child is fuelling a rise in female feticide cases in India, social activists and officials say. Sex determination tests through techniques such as ultrasonography and amniocentesis are
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Bags of Female Foetus and Baby Bones Found...................
Society & Culture  (tags: femalefetusues.india, bags, bones, india, newborns )


- 857 days ago - news.com.au
THE remains of female foetuses and new-born babies have been found in 30 bags dumped in a dry well near a private clinic in the east Indian state of Orissa.
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Baby Versus Cobra
Society & Culture  (tags: india )

Jacquelin
- 906 days ago - video.news.com.au
A BABY is forced to fight a cobra in a bizarre snake charming ritual.
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Brothel Boom Ensnares More of India's Daughters
Society & Culture  (tags: children, prostitution, india, AIDS, rights of the child, human rights, sex trade, crime )


- 923 days ago - womensenews.org
In certain rural villages in India it is traditional for low-income families to send daughters into prostitution. Some girls are being protected from that dangerous fate in the age of HIV-AIDS, but far more are falling into brothels' economic grip.
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