Articles for Social Equality

India's Gender Imbalance: A Call for Action
2 months, 1 week ago

India's Gender Imbalance: A Call for Action

Hindustan Times  

The article provides an overview of the current status of gender equality in India, highlighting both positive and negative developments. It emphasizes the need for addressing deep-rooted cultural norms and systemic barriers to achieve full gender equality. The article outlines various measures that could contribute to achieving this goal, including improving education, reducing child marriage, and empowering women and girls …

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‘Virgin or not…’: Bengaluru auto’s provocative gender equality message sparks debate
3 months, 1 week ago

‘Virgin or not…’: Bengaluru auto’s provocative gender equality message sparks debate

Hindustan Times  

An autorickshaw in Bengaluru has become the target of social media’s attention for its controversial message on gender equality. All girls deserve respect,” reads the slogan emblazoned on the auto, a photograph of which is going steadily viral on X. A Bengaluru auto's message on gender equality has divided the internet {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The photograph was shared on …

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Education is the means to social equality, says CM Siddaramaiah
11 months ago

Education is the means to social equality, says CM Siddaramaiah

The Hindu  

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lamented the vertical stratification of society on the basis of caste and said that social justice can be served only through economic emancipation of the poor. Mr. Siddaramaiah said ending inequality in society and ensuring social and economic justice entails providing equal opportunities for all and this can be achieved only through education. Mr. Siddaramaiah said that …

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Samadharma: Periyar’s idea for India
1 year, 3 months ago

Samadharma: Periyar’s idea for India

The Hindu  

More than a criticism of religion, samadharma is a commitment to equality and to a secularism that can guarantee it. Periyar, who often courted controversy for his iconoclastic acts such as breaking religious idols, burning religious texts, and making provocative speeches about gods, did so to demonstrate his samadharma, which was based on the principle of social equality in its …

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International Women's Day: Global Initiatives Against Gender Discrimination
1 year, 10 months ago

International Women's Day: Global Initiatives Against Gender Discrimination

The Hindu  

The idea of a gender equal world seems like a far off reality even in 2023. And if regular rankings may show strong disparities between countries and regions, let’s not fool ourselves—no country in the world is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030. The news media plays a crucial role not only in denouncing attacks on women’s rights …

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Terms of Trade | The story of two betrayed revolutions in Bihar
1 year, 10 months ago

Terms of Trade | The story of two betrayed revolutions in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

February 17 was the death anniversary of a freedom fighter, a radical leader of the socially backward classes and former chief minister Karpoori Thakur, who is always remembered with a reverential prefix of Jan Nayak. That a man, who pursued his own political agenda despite belonging to a weak and numerically insignificant caste could become the chief minister of a …

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Hijab Row: PIL In Supreme Court Seeks Common Dress Code In Educational Institutions
2 years, 10 months ago

Hijab Row: PIL In Supreme Court Seeks Common Dress Code In Educational Institutions

Live Law  

In the backdrop of protests against the hijab ban in colleges in Karnataka, a law student has moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre and States to strictly implement Common Dress Code in registered and State recognized Educational Institutions. the PIL states As an alternate relief, the petition has sought directions to the Law Commission of India to …

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PM Modi inaugurates Statue of Equality: All you need to know about Saint Ramanujacharya and 216-ft-tall structure in his honour
2 years, 11 months ago

PM Modi inaugurates Statue of Equality: All you need to know about Saint Ramanujacharya and 216-ft-tall structure in his honour

Firstpost  

The structure of the Vaishnava saint — called the Statue of Equality — has been unveiled to commemorate his 1,000th birth anniversary Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 216-feet tall ‘Statue of Equality’ in Hyderabad to commemorate the 11th-century Bhakti Saint Sri Ramanujacharya. Statue of Equality As a tribute to his teachings, the statue, known as the ‘Statue …

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Opinion: The fiercest fight of the 21st century – to save democracy
3 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: The fiercest fight of the 21st century – to save democracy

CNN  

Editor’s Note: In this series, “Voices of Freedom,” 13 dissidents from around the world share their stories and make the case for supporters of democracy to fight for restoring and protecting the rights to speak freely and vote in honest elections. As she has struggled to build a young democracy in her home country, Manneh writes, “it wasn’t just American …

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China’s Xi eyes return to Communist Party roots amid private-sector crackdown
3 years, 4 months ago

China’s Xi eyes return to Communist Party roots amid private-sector crackdown

Live Mint  

China prioritized economic growth for most of the past 40 years. “Xi Jinping is seeking to rebrand the Communist Party’s image domestically and internationally” by reducing income gaps and shifting to higher-quality development, said Bill Bikales, a former senior economist for the United Nations in China. The phrase “common prosperity,” though not totally new, started appearing much more widely after …

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Xi’s four pillars of regulation will reshape China’s Big Tech
3 years, 5 months ago

Xi’s four pillars of regulation will reshape China’s Big Tech

Live Mint  

From the US to the European Union, governments are clearly uneasy with the pervasive power of Big Tech: The influence of their social media platforms on elections, the security of the vast amount of consumer data they store, and the exploitation of gig economy workers who don’t enjoy health insurance or receive overtime pay. All of Beijing’s major interventions reflect …

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Why liberty depends on political equality
4 years, 1 month ago

Why liberty depends on political equality

ABC  

Ever since the trend toward rising economic inequality in the United States became apparent in the 1990s, scholars and commentators have heatedly debated its causes and consequences. The new nation’s successful development of political equality and liberty rested on an historically unprecedented level of economic equality within the white population. Responding to the transformations they saw around them in the …

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10% EWS Quota for Social Equality, Equal Opportunities Irrespective of Caste, Govt Tells SC
5 years, 9 months ago

10% EWS Quota for Social Equality, Equal Opportunities Irrespective of Caste, Govt Tells SC

News 18  

New Delhi: The Central government has justified the 10 per cent reservation benefits for the Economically Weak Sections, emphasising that the move is meant for promoting "social equality" and giving "equal opportunities" to all, irrespective of their castes. Submitting its affidavit in the Supreme Court, the government contended that the constitutional amendment was completely justified in law and that no …

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New 10% quota will create social equity, says PM
5 years, 11 months ago

New 10% quota will create social equity, says PM

The Quint  

Ahmedabad, Jan 17 Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Thursday that the 10 per cent reservation for the economically weak sections among the general categories would usher in social equality and remove mutual distrust among various communities. Modi said it was the "strong political will" of the BJP government that made it possible to implement the decision to provide …

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Why did humanity ignore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?
6 years, 1 month ago

Why did humanity ignore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

ABC  

Perhaps the most interesting question to ask about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the United Nations General Assembly seventy years ago on 10 December 1948, is: why was it ignored in its own time, even as it is celebrated in our own? Probably most people who heard of the Universal Declaration and its idea of human rights …

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