AFP | May 5, 2014, 07.40 PM IST Times of India
KANO (Nigeria): Boko Haram on Monday claimed the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in northern Nigeria that has triggered international outrage, threatening to sell them as "slaves".
"I abducted your girls," the Islamist group's leader...
Sindh, Pakistan, government could begin Shagun Scheme for marriages of Sikh girls
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Sindh-Pakistan-government-could-begin-Shagun-Scheme-for-marriages-of-Sikh-girls/articleshow/26591638.cms
AMRITSAR: Pakistan government could begin Shagun...
MUST WATCH for all Sikh Sangat please !!! the following is a comprehensive list of all media exclusives this weekend which are essential reading and viewing for all Sikh Sangats and that we all get behind this media attention as it will be the first time these issues are aired on National TV...
Sikh Girls in Afghanistan Face Difficulty in Finding Mr. Right
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sikh-girls-in-afghanistan-face-difficulty-in-finding-mr-right-113073001255_1.html
Facing difficulty in finding suitable match for their daughters, Indian-origin Sikhs in...
This story needs eventually to be merged with pre-existing threads as we had been following the beginning of the arrests and trial. For now it is free-standing, at least until I find those earlier threads.
Leicester child prostitution trial: 'Other Sikh girls' involved with men...
Girls and women 'hit the hardest' by global recession
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21088042
Women and girls were hit the hardest by the global recession, according to child rights and development organisations.
"The world is failing girls and women," a report by Plan...
Gang of men 'groomed girls as young as 11 for sex, trafficked them across the UK and attacked them with meat cleavers and baseball bats'
Nine men groomed and horrifically abused vulnerable girls a court has heard
One victim was forced to miscarry after her attacker used an 'instrument' on her...
Rajasthan panchayat bars girls from carrying cell phones
IANS - Aug 25, 2012, 10.22PM IST
A village panchayat in Rajasthan has prohibited minor girls from carrying mobiles and directed them to cover their heads when going out of home.
JAIPUR: After girls in a Uttar Pradesh village...
B.C. soccer player helps Indian girls take aim at life goals
http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/08/02/b-c-soccer-player-helps-indian-girls-take-aim-at-life-goals/
NAGPUR: The ever increasing disparity in sex ratio in states like Rajasthan and Gujarat is having an impact on lives of destitute and orphan girls of Shri Shraddhanand Anathalaya in Nagpur. As it gets increasingly difficult for boys of middle and lower middle class homes in these states to...
Haryana panchayat cuts off married girls from parents’ property
Sukhbir Siwach, TNN | May 12, 2012, 02.59AM IST
CHANDIGARH: A Haryana panchayat has banned married women in the village from seeking a share of parental property. The panchayat, which was attended by over 400 villagers...
"Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as girls decline
Thu, Oct 27 2011
By Nita Bhalla - Reuters
BAGHPAT, India (TrustLaw) - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having...
Name changes in store for girls called Unwanted
With the country's boy-to-girl ratio at its worst, a campaign to tackle the male bias aims to do away with the gender-prejudicial moniker
Agence France-Presse - October 22, 2011
More than 100 Indian girls named Unwanted by their parents...
RELIGION
Jewish sect girls ordered back to Israel
Ingrid Peritz AND Patrick Martin
SAINTE-AGATHE-DES-MONTS, QUEBEC AND BEIT SHEMESH, ISRAEL— Globe and Mail Update
Published Wednesday, Oct. 05, 2011 10:06PM EDT
It is an enclave of ultra-Orthodoxy in the midst of the Laurentian...
State girls surpass boys in higher studies
Shivani Bhakoo
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 24
The region may be struggling hard to improve the declining sex ratio, but as far as getting the benefits of higher education are concerned, the girls have outnumbered the boys
in...
V\LAHORE: Victoria Girls High School is a government girl's school inside the walled city of Lahore and is housed in a nineteenth century Sikh period haveli of Naunihal Singh, the son of Maharajah Ranjeet Singh.
The haveli is one of the few remaining royal residences from the Sikh period in...
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