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NEPAL: Orphaned children build family relationships in SOS Villages

SOS Children's Villages Surya Kamari with one of her 'granddaughters' Aarju

Stephan Bailey – WNN Features WNN – Women News Network journalist Stephen Bailey stops in Kathmandu to spend time and talk with Ms. Surya Kamari, one of the former ‘moms’, and later ‘grandmothers’, who worked with countless orphaned children through a very special program called SOS Children’s Villages Nepal. For International Women’s Day we are [...]

INDIA: Unneeded surgeries for women expose nationwide corruption

Women from the Sahu family who were victims to unscrupulous doctors in India

Shuriah Niazi – WNN Features (WNN) Raipur, State of Chhattisgarh, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: Long range investigations into a stark and disturbing trend in medical corruption is continuing in Central India. In the Hasda village of Raipur District in India’s State of Chhattisgarh, women are being subjected to deceit and physical loss. These loses have not [...]

KASHMIR: Sexual violence increases as justice under law is examined

Woman protester in Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir January 10, 1213

Aliya Bashir – WNN Features (WNN) Srinagar, India Administered KASHMIR, SOUTH ASIA: “Justice has to and should be done.”; “Justice delayed is justice denied.”; and “Teach your sons not to harass rather than teaching your daughter how to dress.” – these were some of the recent slogans that men and women of all ages in [...]

Kashmir women seek justice in mounting cases surrounding ‘The Disappeared’

Mother of one of 'The Disappeared' in Kashmir

Aliya Bashir – WNN Justice (WNN) Srinagar, Indian Administered KASHMIR: For over two decades, it has been an endless wait for families in the Indian Administered Region of Kashmir. Missing what they fondly call “their dear ones” these families have experienced what they describe as “immense pain” for family members who have disappeared from the [...]

INDIA: Advocates work to keep girl infants alive as they face femicide

A malnourished girl-child in Calcutta, India

Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) New Delhi, INDIA: A two-year-old girl, Baby Falak, died of cardiac arrest after being severely battered. A four-day-old girl was ‘rejected’ by her own parents after birth. A three-month-old girl, Neha Afreen, was severely battered by her father – because he wanted a boy instead. All have been victims [...]

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