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Video: Sex Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights
Click to play Sixty-one years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure dignity and equality for all. Sadly, these ideals are still a...
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Photoblog: A Look at Abortion Access & Clinics in India
In India abortion is legally available during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy in a variety of cases: when there is risk to the mother’s life, physical or mental health; rape or fetal abnormality; as...
View ArticleThe Reason I Left School: Children of Indian Sex Workers Speak
Last fall, when I took a trip to India, visited with SANGRAM in Sangli district and shot a lot of video, I got to see the beginnings of a video project that was giving people in the community the...
View ArticleWhy engage boys and young men?
Recently the Youth Parliament Foundation (TYPF), which I founded ten years ago in Delhi, conducted 12 consultations for the National AIDS Control Organization in India for recommendations on how the...
View ArticleAbortion in India: Legal, But Not Always Safe
Even though abortion is legal in almost all countries to save a woman’s life and in three-fifths of countries to protect her physical and mental health, safe abortion services are often not provided by...
View ArticleIshita Chaudhry: "I want to live in a world where human rights are upheld"
Last week, as we’ve blogged previously, IWHC held its annual gala event, which honored Dr. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health. We also featured Ishita Chaudhry, the founder of IWHC partner...
View ArticleMen Must Experience Gender Equality to Be Able to Live It
‘The YP Foundation’s Know Your Body, Know Your Rights campaign is a youth led and -run peer education, capacity building and advocacy program that works with young people in communities and with policy...
View ArticleElements of Success in Gender Equality Programs for Men and Boys
The YP Foundation’s youth-run and led projects have worked with 5,000 young people in Delhi over the past 9 years. We’ve noticed a marked change in the changing attitudes of young men who have...
View ArticleTools for "Real Men": Better Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Men and Boys
While doing our training on gender equity with men and boys, an important piece of feedback we get at the YP Foundation is that many men and boys are struggling with the expectation and aspiration of...
View ArticleIWHC Young Leaders Tackle Thorny Issue of Outsourced Surrogacy
On July 29, 30 young people joined IWHC for our Young Leaders screening of Made in India, a documentary by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha about surrogacy outsourcing in India. We were excited to...
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