MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A tablet-based application that helps to identify some of the poorest girls in eastern India has the potential to prevent human trafficking, early marriage and child labor, according to a charity which has developed the app. The GPower, or Girl Power, app developed by Accenture Labs and the charity Child…
Three months after The Indian Express reported about a separate anganwadi for Dalit children in Gujarat’s Patan district, the state government has taken corrective steps. Nine children from anganwadi No. 159, which had only Dalit children, have been shifted to No. 160, while 19 children from the Thakore, Patel and Rawal communities in No. 160…
Right from birth to old age, South Asian women are vulnerable to violence as per the latest report published by the World Bank titled ‘Violence against Women and Girls, Lesson from South Asia.’ The report has divided female life-cycle into seven stages — infancy, childhood (1-5yr), unmarried and adolescent girls, married girls and women, unmarried…