Browsing Tag: Female

Merida isn’t your usual 2-D Disney Princess, as she’ll be hitting theaters in 3-D and CGI like Rapunzel. But you can be sure that Jasmine, Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Rapunzel will soon be welcoming a Scottish princess.

Eight thousand communities in Africa have sworn off female genital excision, including almost 2,000 that abandoned the practice in the last year, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF announced Monday.

India's child sex ratio has dropped from 927 to 914 girls per 1,000 boys according to Census 2011. To understand the problem, HT travels to districts in 4 states, each of which present a different scenario - either displaying remarkable improvement or decline from 2001

The global problems we face today are too colossal and complex to be solved without the full participation of women.

A recent spate of articles has made me wish to visit the issue of female Granthis, as an agent of change...

My greatest challenge is to try and change mindsets. To keep working until female foeticide comes to an end.