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Mission Hazaar
Women are seldom able to take part in decisions pertaining to their own lives. They are denied their rights to choice, education, career, health, and mobility. Traditional norms perpetuate discrimination and further restrict their opportunities. What is Mission Hazaar? How many women are around you right now? In India, there are only 914 girls for every 1000 boys. A normal ratio...
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Selfies4School
UNICEF reports suggest that India accounts for 47% of child brides across the world. Eleven states in India continue to record high incidences of marriage of girls before they are legally of age. While early marriage is perceived as largely a rural phenomenon, research shows that it is also prevalent in urban and peri-urban areas of India. According to the...
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Nation Against Early Marriage
Indian Law says that marriage of a girl below 18 years (bal vivah) of age is a crime. India has had a law preventing early marriages – bal vivah from the British Era. However early marriage trends showed prevalence of more than 60% as per the figures by National Family Survey 2005-2006. Breakthrough works within the communities in the Indian...
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A dad’s promise of support to his daughter
In areas like Bihar and Jharkhand, where we work to curb the practice of early marriage of girls, our midline findings highlight the father’s role in matters related to a girl’s education and marriage. We also found that the fathers have been the traditional decision makers when it comes to marriage. In a patriarchal society, while different factors impact the...
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De Taali – banegi baat saath-saath
One third of the world’s child brides live in India. The country also has the largest number of children born to children. Generation after generation will lose the battle to patriarchy, economic exclusion and extreme gender and caste discrimination, till we get up and say, “Stop. Let’s find a way out.” “Let’s catch this early and stem the rot.” This...
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Kaam Ka Partner
In the age of Artificial Intelligence, when our homegrown women scientists are launching Chandrayan to moon successfully, we are also witnessing a sharp fall in the participation rate of women in the labour force from 37% in 2004-05 to 28% in 2016. Till date, women need to justify their going out for work, their working hours, type of work and...
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Be My Strength – I’ll show how high I can leap
Adolescence is a crossroad in any child’s life. But, make that a girl growing up in U.P and the crossroad becomes a challenge that she can can’t meet alone. Over 17 million adolescents drop out of school to enter an early marriage. 1 out of 3 girls who are married early face some form of violence in the future. The...
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Make it safer – Support the drive against sexual harassment
Here’s an alarming fact. Breakthrough’s work with women and girls shows that the person most vulnerable to sexual harassment is the schoolgirl. Too young to understand, too powerless to defend herself, she faces many threats on the way to school, from cat-calls and leers to worse. She is pulled out of school and the chain of events that follows can...
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