KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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SC seeks Centre’s response to plea for uniform age of marriage for women -Abraham Thomas
-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a petition calling for a uniform age of marriage of 18 years be fixed for all women, regardless of their Religion or personal laws. The plea also urged the court to end the “discrimination” existing between genders on the age of marriage by lowering the age for men to get married from 21 years to be at...
More »Digital Divide: Tech Access Limited to Male, Urban, Upper Caste & Class, Says Oxfam Report
-PTI/ Newsclick.in Percentage of men owning phones in India is as high as 61% while only 31% of women owned phones in 2021. New Delhi: The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61% while only 31% of women-owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India's growing inequalities based on caste, Religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space. Oxfam...
More »India tops list of Covid-related religious hostilities in 2020: Pew Research Center
-The Telegraph Study records targeting of minorities during pandemic, including use of social media handles like ‘#CoronaJihad’ New Delhi: The Washington-based think tank Pew Research Centre has come out with a study that puts India at the top of its index of social hostilities involving Religion in 2020 in the context of the impact of Covid restrictions. The study has recorded the targeting of minorities in India during the pandemic, including the use...
More »Human rights defenders should conform to law of land, says Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta -Kallol Bhattacherjee
-The Hindu At the Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Greece urges India to ensure full implementation of freedom of Religion and Germany expresses concern about the status of human rights India appreciates the role of human rights defenders, journalists and activists in the democratic system but the activities of these groups and individuals should be in conformity with the law of the land, said Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta at the Human Rights...
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