In a bid to promote safer deliveries in hospitals and arrest India’s high maternal mortality rate, has the National Rural Health Mission deliberately sidelined the country’s 1 million traditional midwives? More...

A recent all-India A C Neilsen ORG MARG survey evaluating the impact of 10.5 lakh women in panchayati raj reveals that a large number of women decided to contest elections after having joined self-help groups that gave them the confidence and exposure to take on more challenging assignments More...

The Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability does a gender analysis of public expenditure as presented in the 2008-09 budget More...

A man who falsely proposes marriage to a woman as a means of eliciting consent for sex can be held for rape, says a court in the Indian capital More...

Two significant judgments by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India on more stringent punishments for rape and warnings to judges to hand out appropriate sentences to rapists may have a positive impact on justice for victims of sexual crimes in India More...

According to recent National Crime Records Bureau statistics, a rape is being reported every 30 minutes in India, an alarming increase of nearly 700% since 1971 when the NCRB started keeping records More...

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