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Rishabh Jain

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Europe, India
As seen in: India Times, Al Jazeera English, SAGE Publishing, The BMJ, Flipboard, Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Wire (India), TRT World and
Covers:  Climate Change, Gender, Sustainability, Religion, Human Rights, South Asian Politics.
Doesn't Cover: Health, Lifestyle
Freelance journalist Bylines: @AJEnglish @trtworld @IJNet @RNS @inkstickmedia @Article14live @bmj_latest @third_pole & many more Grantee: @earthjournalism

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Rishabh Jain is a journalist and a freelance writer who writes on climate change, sustainability, migration, and human rights.

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How India's Houses Of Worship Save Lives Amid Historic Heatwave

How India's Houses Of Worship Save Lives Amid Historic Heatwave

Across India, another brutal summer stretches into its third month, killing workers and others caught in the …

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How India's Houses Of Worship Save Lives Amid Historic Heatwave

How India's Houses Of Worship Save Lives Amid Historic Heatwave

Across India, another brutal summer stretches into its third month, killing workers and others caught in the …

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In India, The Catholic Church Becomes An Unlikely Sanctuary For Trans People

In India, The Catholic Church Becomes An Unlikely Sanctuary For Trans People

The room is small - a modest space inside the parish in southern India. But when church leaders unveiled a de…

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Syria's start-ups: building innovation from the rubble | D+C - Development + Cooperation

Syria's start-ups: building innovation from the rubble | D+C - Development + Cooperation

In post-war Syria, start-ups have learned to work around power outages, low bandwidth and fuel shortages rath…

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Die „Kakerlaken" schlagen zurück!

Die „Kakerlaken" schlagen zurück!

Mit Kakerlaken und Parasiten hat Indiens Oberster Richter Surya Kant kürzlich arbeitslose junge Regierungskri…

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Israel: Indische Juden sollen ins verheißene Land

Israel: Indische Juden sollen ins verheißene Land

Die israelische Regierung fördert die Umsiedlung von Menschen aus Indien, die sich als Nachfahren eines jüdis…

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As countries lift ‘gay blood bans,’ India doubles down

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By Aakriti Dhawan, Rishabh Jain, Sutapa Baksi
| FairPlanet Verified
In March 2026, India retained its ban on blood donations by gay men, transgender persons, and sex workers, reviving a long-running tension between the country's constitutional promises and its public health policy. Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark reading down of Section 377 affirmed the dignity, equality, and citizenship of LGBTQ+ Indians, queer people continue to face blanket biological exclusion under public health policy.
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Fighting Malnutrition in Conflict Areas

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By Ithamar Handelman-Smith, Raze Baziani, Rishabh Jain
| FairPlanet Verified
Topics Humans Food Security Dossier Malnutrition remains one of the world's most preventable crises. Globally, it is a contributing factor in 45 per cent of childhood deaths — a toll driven not only by poverty and climate shocks, but by conflict. In Africa, for example, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies estimates that 167 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2025, around 78 per cent of them in countries experiencing active conflict.
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The NGO Fighting Malnutrition in Africa’s Conflict Zones, One Supplement at a Time

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By Ithamar Handelman-Smith, Raze Baziani, Rishabh Jain
| FairPlanet Verified
After Jiddaru Manniru’s community in Bama, northern Nigeria’s Borno state, was ‘seized’ by insurgents in 2014, her major worry became how she and her family would cope elsewhere. The attack displaced them, forcing them to trek to the state capital Maiduguri hurriedly – usually a three-hour drive – and then board a vehicle to Fune village internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in neighbouring Yobe state.
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