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Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

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Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

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Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

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Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

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Questioning harmful traditions

23/05/2023

2 pages long

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This is a short piece by activist Masooma Ranalvi; she shares the experience of female genital mutilation (FGM) /cutting and the culture of silence surrounding it. In collaboration with other survivors, Masooma has created the collective WeSpeakOut, where women speak and question this violence from their childhood. WeSpeakOut aims to end the practice of FGM.

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Ekla Chalo Re: a tribute to Ms. Mary Roy

23/05/2023

2 pages long

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Ekla Chalo Re: a tribute to Ms. Mary Roy

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women human rights defenders

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This is a tribute to activist Mary Roy, who passed away in 2022. The author traces the life of Mary Roy, highlighting the ways in which she challenged gendered norms and expectations. She was the applicant in a landmark case which brought equal property rights for Syrian Christian women in India. The author reminds readers […]

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Accidental women human rights activists, unintentional advocacy by NGOs and a displeased government

23/05/2023

3 pages long

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Accidental women human rights activists, unintentional advocacy by NGOs and a displeased government

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This is a short piece by activist Rita Manchanda on how consciousness raising and capacity building for Federation leadership led to gains that the government did not anticipate. Although the NGOs were to be collaborative partners, they unintentionally took on a confrontational course as conscious raising and capacity building also meant that the women were […]

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Kiruba Munuswamy: progenitor of shockwaves in a casteist-pratriarchal society

23/05/2023

4 pages long

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Kiruba Munuswamy: progenitor of shockwaves in a casteist-pratriarchal society

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This is a short piece on advocate and activist Kiruba Munusamy, who practices in the Supreme Court of India and is a dalit rights activist. Some of the cases that Kiruba has fought against gross human rights violations and Kiruba's own experiences are discussed in the piece. The author focuses on Munusamy's resilience and resistence in the […]

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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

07/12/2022

14 pages long

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Building agency: women vendors and gendered technology in informal markets in Assam

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Demonetisation of the Indian economy in 2016 facilitated significant changes in the lifestyle of people, particularly in adoption of digital transactions in everyday life. While there have been studies on mobile phones and the digital divide even prior to demonetisation, the growing gender disparity in the use of new technologies for secure payment via UPI […]

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Gendered identities and digital inequalities: an exploration of the lived realities of the transgender community in the Indian digital welfare state

07/12/2022

19 pages long

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Gendered identities and digital inequalities: an exploration of the lived realities of the transgender community in the Indian digital welfare state

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With rapid digitalisation and technological advancements, the emergence of digital welfare states worldwide has become a reality. Broadly, the term digital welfare state refers to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital tools to transform public and welfare services, such as biometric identification systems and automated systems to verify the eligibility of […]

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Gendered labour’s positions of vulnerabilities in digital labour platforms and strategies of resistance: a case study of women workers’ struggle in Urban Company, New Delhi

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The expansion of digital labour platforms (DLPs) in South Asia has incorporated the pre-existing intersectional social inequalities, initiating new sites of exploitation and collective resistance which disrupt and negotiate the gendered labour's positions of vulnerabilities. This paper explores the case of a courageous strike by women workers of Urban Company (online beauty and home services […]

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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy

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Women have a long history of organising in the informal economy, despite facing several challenges around geographical dispersion, time poverty, and lack of recognition. These challenges persist in the platform economy which pose similar concerns around precarious irregular work. Recent literature has documented the adoption of traditional and novel strategies to resist platform exploitation, through […]

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