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A plot of land about twice the size of a tennis court saved Poonam Barman’s future. The 14-year-old girl and

Children here did not attend school, but worked alongside their parents in landowners’ fields. When those fields were fallow, the

Shakti beams with pride as she holds her patta – the title to her land. Before she became a landowner,

In Neilu village in China’s Fujian Province, Lin Lianhua and her husband, Su Yuan, spent their lives farming a small

After two years trying to reclaim their inheritance rights to their family’s forestland, three sisters in a remote county of

Around the globe, from the streets of London to the Arab world’s public squares, youth and disenfranchisement have proved a

Bali Sabar’s journey from typical unemployed and hopeless youth to village savior began in a humble but powerful meeting.

Twenty years ago, the fourth world conference on women hosted in Beijing broke all the records – more than 47,000

India’s economy has already crossed $2 trillion and is growing annually at around 6%. But these figures cannot hide the

This article was first published by the South China Morning Post on November 3, 2014. China is launching what is