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Wages for housewives: party’s manifesto pledge stirs debate in India

January 9, 2021January 8, 2021 The African Mirror housewives, Wages, india

ANURADHA NAGARAJ A political party’s pledge to pay housewives a monthly wage in recognition of their toil has sparked debate

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Denied a chair, Dalit women confront discrimination on Indian village councils

January 5, 2021January 4, 2021 The African Mirror discrimination, Dalit women, india

WHEN Priya Periyasamy was elected to lead her village council in southern India a year ago, her parents warned that

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India’s ‘invisible’ women hope for recognition at farmers protests

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 The African Mirror agricultural reforms, india, Oxfam, woman farmers

ROLI SRIVASTAVA LEGIONS of women have trekked to India’s capital to join massive protests against agricultural reforms, hoping not only

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Not without India: World’s pharmacy gears up for vaccine race

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 The African Mirror COVID vaccine, india, pharmaceutical industry, vaccine race

ABHIRUP ROY, EUAN ROCHA and KRISHNA N. DAS INDIA, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is getting set for the massive

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Farmers protest across India against Modi’s liberalisation

December 9, 2020December 8, 2020 The African Mirror india, liberalisation, Narendra Modi, protesting farmers

MANOJ KUMAR and RAJENDRA JADHAV FARMERS’ protests against new laws liberalising agricultural markets spread across India on Tuesday, as farm

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India’s low-caste women raped to keep them ‘in their place’

November 26, 2020November 25, 2020 The African Mirror Dalit women, Equality Now, india, low-caste women, Swabhiman Society

ANURADHA NAGARAJ LOWER-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice

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With scant power or freezers, Pfizer vaccine brings little cheer to coronavirus-hit India

November 13, 2020November 12, 2020 The African Mirror Coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccine, india, Pfizer vaccine

ANNIE BANERJI  DESPITE hopes raised by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, it will take huge efforts for India to defeat the coronavirus,

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Rapes show double struggle of low-caste women in India

October 9, 2020October 8, 2020 The African Mirror gang rape, india, low-caste women, rape

ANNIE BANERJI and SAURABH SHARMA THE victim of India’s latest alleged gang rape faced the double discrimination of being born

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Police impose emergency law in Indian village as gang-rape victim’s cremation sparks clashes

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 The African Mirror emergency law, gang-rape, india

SAURABH SHARMA and ALASDAIR PAL INDIAN police have imposed emergency laws in a village where a woman from the lowest

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Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help ‘all humanity’

September 27, 2020September 26, 2020 The African Mirror COVID-19 crisis, india, Narendra Modi, Phase 3 clinical trials, vaccine-production

INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged at the United Nations that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made

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