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Implementing the PWDVA: Safeguarding women from domestic violence

26/10/2015

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Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, and yet the least recognized, human rights violations across the world. It can manifest in many forms, but the most common form experienced by women globally is physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. Documenting this continues to be a challenge due to […]

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Oxfam in Action: Promoting multilingual education in Odisha’s Adivasi belt

24/09/2015

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in seven states. Oxfam India believes that the right to education (RTE) is vital to closing the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’. As a founding member of the RTE Forum, it is working towards […]

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Briefing note

Oxfam in Action: Creating awareness to improve maternal health in Jharkhand

23/03/2015

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‘Improving Maternal Health in India’, an Oxfam-DFID project, was implemented in 420 villages across 6 States from 2012. It sought to improve maternal health status by building the capacity of communities to demand, access and monitor public health services. This document reviews the programme in Jharkhand where the CSO CINI is using an integrated approach […]

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Briefing note

Right to Education Act: Claiming education for every child

12/03/2015

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A conscious neglect of school education in the initial decades of independent India is termed by Dreze and Sen (2013) as a ‘home-grown folly’. Public services like education are key to nurture participatory growth as well as to ensure that growth improves peoples’ living conditions. However, India’s highly privatised and compartmentalised education system (largely unaccountable […]

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