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Kalimantan Women Losing Their Children to Mine Pits

by Marrium Jameela

East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province in the east of the island of Borneo, is home of indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas like Kutai National Park. If we try to uncover the problems of local women in Kalimantan, we will find horrific stories of pain and miseries. Women, here, not only struggle against domestic violence…

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Row of Tragedies: Sexual Violence in Indonesia

by Marrium Jameela

Jakarta has become one of the most insecure cities for women in the world – a bad achievement for Indonesia which has 135 million female residents. The issue of sexual violence in Indonesia is one of the scary scourges. The high rate of sexual violence is also because of the reason that there are no laws…

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Foreign employment for domestic empowerment

by Sandhya Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked country which heavily relies on remittance as the main source of income. National data shows that more than 30 percent of the countries income is generated from the remittance. In the gloomy time of moist insurgency when what little income the country generated domestically went to an anxious downfall, the remittance…

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6 Gender Based Stereotypes Debunked with Science

by Ummara Sheraz

Gender discrimination has held women back for ages. Even in the post-feminism world, stereotypes which have evolved with culture are still alive. South Asia is rigid in general when it comes to norms and traditions but gender stereotypes are also deeply rooted here. The problem has grown to an extent that often modern societies with…

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Chase to size Zero

by Almas Virani

The pressure cooker is steaming with boiled chicken. It’s been whistling with boiling chicken every single day for the last 11 months. Hooting for Tanya’s big ‘fat’ race. The race to ‘size zero’. It’s been exactly 328 days since she started the race. Just like any other race, this one also needs perseverance and a…

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Stop This Rishta Parade

by Umaima Ahmed

As I was doing my daily skincare routine, my house-help who was looking on as she worked said, “I’ll tell you a remedy for skin whitening!” I told her that I do not believe in such remedies and I am comfortable with my complexion. But that discussion made me think that the desire to appear…

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UNCERTAINTY ERODES A CREATIVE SPIRIT

by Hassan Ibrahim Ch.

Sitting just behind the striking Lahore Museum on Mall Road there is another impressive building of equal importance. Established in 1884, Punjab Public Library is the city’s oldest library. In fact, it is the country’s first public library and the largest. This library is home to a forgotten treasure of books, archived official reports going…

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Photo Blog: Basnama works hard for education of her daughters

by Saba Rehman

Basnama is a 46-year-old tribal woman living with her family in a native village of Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Her husband is a farmer. The couple has three children – one son and two daughters. The son is eldest of all. He is working in another province. Their elder daughter is studying…

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