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Epilepsy patients face higher risks of domestic violence, sexual abuse: St
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [US], Oct. 15 (ANI): In a recent analysis, experts have found that people suffering from epilepsy were seven-times more likely to have reported experiencing discrimination due to health problems.
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CRY highlights ten gender data gaps India needs to fill
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 11 (ANI): With a population of 225 million, girls account for 48 percent of India's children. Yet, a girl in India continues to faces discrimination from the womb.
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Tibetan families urge UN to intervene over alleged rights violations by Ch
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept.14 (ANI): Five Tibetan families living in Switzerland have urged the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the government of various countries to support them against the alleged ongoing political repression, c
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Kolkata: Mocambo doesn't discriminate, driver was 'dirtily dress
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): Manager of Mocambo Ashish Malik on Wednesday said the eatery doesn't believe in discrimination, while asserting that the driver who had come along with a woman was 'dirtily dressed'.
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Saint Mother Teresa showed world to 'love without discrimination'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Sept. 4 (ANI): Expressing happiness after the canonisation of Mother Teresa as "saint" in Vatican City on Sunday, Father Francis Xavier said may Mother Teresa set an example to all to follow the path to love and help everyone without any discrimination
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Experts appeal UN to rethink on health target
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug. 31 (ANI): As per a recent research the concept of premature mortality needs to be either abandoned or redefined to stop discrimination against older people.
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HC verdict on Haji Ali a 'great satisfaction for women': UP'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug. 26 (ANI): Buoyed by the Bombay High Court's verdict that allowed women's entry in the inner sanctum of Haji Ali dargah, Uttar Pradesh's first woman qazi Dr. Hina Zaheer Naqvi on Friday said the verdict came as "a great satisfaction to
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Dalit girl denied right to quench her thirst in UP village
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 10 (ANI): In another case of caste discrimination, a 13-year-old Dalit girl in Gunnaur village of Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal District was allegedly denied drinking water at a temple.
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Vladimir Putin declares banned Russian athletes victims of `discrimination
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London, July 27 (ANI): Russian president Vladimir Putin has declared that his country's track and field athletes are victims of 'discrimination', insisting that they will not accept the campaign to project the embattled country in bad light.
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Priestess in Kanpur defends temple cleaning post Dalit women charges(Updat
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Kanpur, July 15 (ANI): Refuting charges of caste discrimination, the priestess at Chaturbhuj Temple in Mangalpur village of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city have said that cleaning of the premises is a regular affair.
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Temple authorities `clean` premises with Gangajal after Dalit woman perfor
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kanpur, July 15 (ANI): A new case of caste discrimination has come to light after a Dalit woman in a Kanpur village alleged that the authorities of a temple, where she had gone to offer prayers, cleansed the temple with 'Gangajal' after she left.
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Obama calls for peace, says racial discrimination still exists in U.S.
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington, July 13 (ANI): President Barack Obama said racial discrimination still exists in the United States and protesters against police violence could not be dismissed as "troublemakers or paranoid."
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