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ENSS / Astha Sansthan
In the Netherlands widows and divorcees are comforted or simply left in peace. But in the Indian state of Rajasthan women are discriminated against, affronted and mistreated if their husbands die or break off the relationship. No longer having a husband is reason enough in this patriarchal region for a woman to be socially excluded.
Kloop Media Foundation
They are still young people, the reporters and bloggers of the Kloop website. But in just two years, co-founder and director Bektour Iskender, only 22 himself, has created one of the most popular websites for bloggers in Kyrgyzstan. Together with his colleagues, he sets out daily to make reports about the news in this Central Asian country. In the meantime, hundreds of bloggers have already registered with the website.
SIAAP
The year is 1988. Thirty female sex workers from the Southern Indian town of Chennai are thrown in jail because they are hiv positive. When the case comes to court two years later, there are more than 800 hiv positive sex workers in prison in the whole state of Tamil Nadu. The court eventually orders their release. 'The attitude of the authorities was typical of the panic and the lack of information about hiv & aids when aids first reached India,' says SIAAP director Indumathi Ravishankar looking back. In the meantime this attitude has taken a 180 degree turn.
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