In villages across the country, volunteer community health workers are helping educate and mobilise to save lives.
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In villages across the country, volunteer community health workers are helping educate and mobilise to save lives.
Residents claim they are being mercilessly taxed by armed groups, and short-changed by a corrupt state government.
Young widows who have lost husbands to gun violence face financial, legal and social hardships in India’s Manipur.
Children are being trafficked into forced labour and sexual exploitation in large numbers from Assam state.
Accusations of black magic causing disease and death have led to dozens of deaths during mob attacks in Assam state.