News articles tagged with “Exclusion”

Questions on the representation of women in decision-making roles must go from how many women participate to how gender representative are institutions.

India's transgender persons face both financial stress and medical uncertainties to undergo Gender Affirmation Surgery as government reforms fail to change much on the ground.

Target 22 on integrating gender in the biodiversity framework remains a barely discussed topic, with only one contact group meeting to discuss the issue, in the fourth negotiating session in Nairobi, Kenya

Indigenous women and girls face grave, systematic, and continuous acts of violence that permeate every aspect of their lives, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Wednesday in a hard hitting report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva

The Indian Bank’s hiring guidelines audaciously refuse to hire pregnant women who have crossed the 12-week mark.

Governments not listening to people with disabilities despite them being at high risk, say researchers

Many states still skip including vulnerable groups as automatic beneficiaries

Dalit activists say the government’s Public Distribution System of food grains often excludes the marginalised community.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout pose great risks to migrants in the Asia-Pacific, a new United Nations report reveals.

While refugees remain excluded from most public health and nutrition programmes in India, refugee women in particular lack access to maternal and sexual healthcare.