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Sex Workers Protest Against Discrimination
Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi, India, 2/28/2009
With over 1 lakh sex workers in West Bengal, around 300 women in the profession protested on Friday against the constant discrimination and criminalisation of sex workers and demanded action from the government.
HIV, AIDS Pose Serious Risk to South Asia: World Bank
Times of India – India, 2/28/2009
HIV and AIDS can pose a serious economic and social development risk to countries in South Asia with about 2.6 million infected people, a lion’s share of them in India, a new World bank report says.
Secular and open-minded, sexually active but without the necessary awareness, a constant need to please the parents, and a highly stressful existence: these are the characteristics of the typical young adult from Maharashtra.
Former Kerala Nun Pens a Book, Discloses Sexuality in Convents
Newstrack India - Delhi, India, 2/27/2009
A former catholic nun in Kerala has penned down an autobiographical account of sexual abuses prevailing in convents besides ill treatment being meted out by superiors to nuns.