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The REFERENCEs in our website are the following:
1. On Dowry and female infanticide:


UNITED NATIONS REPORT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,
REPORT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 6 JULY 2006

Links:
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2. On Women and Hunger:
'Chronic Hunger and the Status of Women in India', June 1998
(The Hunger Project), by Carol S. Coonrod, quotes Sonalde Desai in Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior

UNICEF’s REPORT ON MALNUTRITION AND CASTE PROBLEM IN INDIA - Read here ... >>


3. On Women and Poverty:
Indian education of girls - Read here ... >>
and Read here ... >> as PDF


4. On Caste problems:
'The caste system – India’s apartheid?' Balakrishnan Rajagopal, in The Hindu, 18.8.2007 - Read here ... >>

'Caste system contributed to Child Labour in India' 7, (UNI) On the UNICEF Report - Read here ...>>

'Discrimination persisting in U.P. schools', report by Puja Awasthi (Hindu: 17 August 2007)


5. On Women and Education:
LITERACY AND EDUCATION: Villupuram Dt Details – based on 2001 census - Read here ...>>

Crew:
Zerina – Coordinator
Harini – Executive
Marijke – Executive

Teaching staff:
Sylvia – English
Amar – English
Elizabeth – Fashion Design
Susmita – Teacher Training
Lisa – Auroville Liaison

Contact:
Zerina:
zerina@auroville.org.in
Harini:
harini@auroville.org.in
Marijke:
margeen@auroville.org.in

Situated in Tamil Nadu in South India, near Pondicherry, Auroville is an experimental laboratory in the evolution of mankind. One of the many aims of Auroville is to promote development in the local bioregion – be it environment, technology, material and social change, leading towards a change in consciousness.
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'Debates In Education In Rural Tamil Nadu', by Vrunda Prabhu , 03 August, 2007 - Read here ...>

'The problem of girl education in rural Uttar Pradesh', July 15, 2007 - Read here ...>>

'Indian women still have miles to go', by Liz Mathew, in the Hindu 09.08.2007


6. On Family Life:
Barbara Trawick: 'Notes on Love in a Tamil Family' Delhi Oxford University Press, 1996.
(ISBN 0 19 564058 6)

'Urban girl child more vulnerable', article by Paul Sharma, New Delhi, in The Hindu 05.08.2007
Read here ...>>

7. Fotos by:
Marijke & Steffen
 
   
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