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Yesterday you asked If I was done painting myself Unsure of that question I did not answer But today I can confidently reply Yes, I was done Painting myself for the day Today is a new day
There are sensitive issues we often hear people talking about. But because of their nature you need to approach them with princess feet. I hope I’m doing this right. Pictured in this post, you will see a young girl, her…
I recently went to a protest demanding justice forMichael Brown, the unarmed African American teenager who was killed by a police officer this August. The police officer who killed him got no punishment, rather, the police…
Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of rape cases, followed by Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, in 2013 across the country which witnessed over 33,707 such incidents. A total of 4,335 rape incidents were…
O Kasturi! Your song Captured me, Your smile -- Enraptured me. Who are they That defined your beauty But missed your dignity? Be strong forever Dear sister For you, your mother Your boys and others. NOTE: Kasturi is a…
Hello beautiful people! I am thrilled to announce the release, coinciding with International Women's Day, of the anthology, "Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan." The book features my new…
"Lying along a pool of crimson liquid that draped her body like a Sari, the woman lay naked, except for the firy eyes to speak on the bright daylight that exuded from her tangled hair and sealed the convulsions on her lips…
I'm delighted to share that a few thousand women, children, gender minorities, youth and men united under the Karnataka Rajya Mahila Dourjanya Virodhi Okkuta (Karnataka State Forum Against Atrocities on Women) celebrated…
Dear Pulse Friends, "It will take seismic shifts in the world to eradicate child slavery once and for all. Beyond economic reform, it's a matter of education, of human rights, of political and personal will. Perhaps that's…
We are an NGO based at Jaipur Rajasthan working to Promote Gender Equality & Women Empowerment (UN MDG Goal No 3) since 2013. We started a Program named Jagriti 2 years back after the Nirbhaya Gang Rape at Delhi which…
A few days before one of our students who was going back home from the school, was harassed by a few boys, this was not first time but she never told it to anybody according to her, she was scared that her father will kill…
A Non-White Female in South Africa I was born and raised in South Africa, discriminated against as a “non-white”. I left the country as a young woman to accept a scholarship to study in the USA. For over 20 years now, I’ve…
BY ALIYA BASHIR A Kashmiri woman has worked to increase the literacy rate of women and raise girls’ participation in education in her neighborhood despite fierce opposition from local men. Over the past 27 years, she has…
A girl was raped in a vehicle by five men few days back. When she went to the police station near her, she was asked to go to another police station. Poor girl had to go to three police stations before she could finally…
This year, NACCRAN marked the DAC with the Human Right Commission with the theme Accelerating our collective efforts to end child marriage in Africa. The event started at 11:00am with the national anthem and an opening…
Dear Reader Domistic Violence is common each and every societies in the world. Developing countries like Bangladesh the social custums are different because the conservation in Pattarns. So , it is difficult to measure the…
I am a girl like every girl but my life is not like all other girls I have two brothers, I am the oldest child of my parents, my life is very strange, I have seen only one thing since my birth at my home, quarreling, beating…
I am a student at Zeph education, we are two sisters, my mother was given divorce by my father when I was two and my sister was six months old, but my father got married again and when his second wife also gave a birth to a…
I am a girl like every girl but my life is not like all other girls I have two brothers, I am the oldest child of my parents, my life is very strange, I have seen only one thing since my birth at my home, quarreling, beating…
