Tag: Women
Silent no more: Nepal’s wartime rape survivors demand recognition
Critics say Nepal's truth and reconciliation process has been poorly designed from the outset and plagued by chronic funding shortfalls
Ethnic minorities in Lao struggle with pregnancy-related deaths and infant mortality
Poverty is widespread in Laos, and is especially severe for children from the dozens of ethnic minority groups who live in rural areas
FABC 50: Youth, women empowerment issues raised at Asian bishops’ general...
The day’s discussions focused on the “concerns for, and role of, the youth in the Church” and “new pathways for the role of women"
Christian women movement in India to accept transpersons, LGBT+ as members
“We stand strongest when we stand together, allowing God’s grace to work through us,” said the group
Church program in India’s Meghalaya state provides nutritional food for pregnant...
The initiative has been undertaken in 40 communities through the Church’s health facilitation centers
India’s top court broadens abortion rights for unmarried women
Indian law has permitted abortion in the case of sexual assault since 1971
‘As capable as a son’: Indians say no to the abortion...
More girls are born as women achieve success in business and sport, and police raid clinics that carry out sex-selective abortions
‘Keep listening to the cry of the poor, planet,’ Catholic women...
“Continue to listen and respond to the cry of the poor and the cry of the planet as Pope Francis said in Laudato Si”
Indian rights activists decry release of perpetrators of 2002 rape, killings...
“It is a shame for democracy and an insult to women,” said Dev Desai of the non-government organization ANHAD
The shame of a nation: The tragedy of Bilkis Bano
Independence Day was a terrible day for Bilkis Yakub Rasool and for millions of Indians who cherish all that is sacred
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