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News ScanIndia’s ‘missing women’ highest in Asia-Pacific: UNDP report NEW
Discrimination against women that threatens their very existence is rife in the Asia-Pacific region, and India is at the top of the list says a recent UNDP report on gender equality More... Amendments to Dowry Act to plug loopholesNew amendments to the Dowry Prohibition Act, suggested by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, include maintaining a notorised list of wedding gifts, reduced penalties for dowry-givers and linking the Dowry Act to the Domestic Violence Act More... Rajya Sabha passes Women’s Reservation BillThe Bill reserving one-third of seats for women in the Indian Parliament, stalled for 14 years, was passed on March 9 among rowdy scenes by those opposed to it More... Two Mumbai doctors face imprisonment for sex determination testsAn advertisement offering treatment to those who “want a boy” has landed two practising doctors in jail with the local magistrate holding them guilty of violations under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act of 2003 More... India ranks a poor 114th in gender equalityThe country ranks in the bottom half, among 134 countries, in terms of gender equality in the latest ranking that assesses the distribution of resources and opportunities among males and females around the world More... Too many Indian women dying during childbirthUnless India actually counts all the women who die during childbirth, it won’t be able to prevent these thousands of unnecessary deaths. Accountability might seem like an abstract concept, but for Indian women it’s a matter of life and death, says Aruna Kashyap, South Asia researcher in HRW’s women’s rights division More... Women’s panel to probe ‘wife mortgages’ by indebted farmers in BundelkhandThe National Commission for Women is sending a team to probe the “awful and unbelievable” reports that indebted farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s drought-hit Bundelkhand region are selling off their women to survive More... 50% quota for women in all tiers of panchayati rajA proposed amendment seeks to increase reservation for women in the number of seats to be filled by direct election for the office of chairperson, right from the panchayat to the panchayat samiti and the zilla parishad More... Delhi has more pink than blueLeading the way in changing the skewed sex ratio across the country, Delhi has posted a remarkable improvement in the sex ratio, from 820 per 1,000 in 2005 and 848 in 2007 to 1,004 in 2008. This was revealed by the Annual Report on Births and Deaths in Delhi-2008 prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics and Office of the Chief Registrar (Births and Deaths) of the Delhi government The Supreme Court highlights the persistent menace of dowry and suggests that no mercy be shown to the accused More... |
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