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Unmarried Nepalese women are fighting a government incentive that offers a $650 incentive to marry: "We want the government to provide employment and health care to the families of single women, and scholarships to their children," says one. [Breitbart] More »
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Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five in Banda, one of India's poorest areas, says "nobody comes to our help in these parts. The officials and the police are corrupt and anti-poor. So sometimes we have to take the law in our hands." To do this, she started the "gulabi gang," or pink gang, two years ago. The gang members wear pink and use beatings and humiliation to combat domestic abuse and corruption. More »
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