By Rashme Sehgal

Seventy thousand girls across Maharashtra are escaping the oppression of their homes to attend meetings of the Adolescent Girls Group which trains them in gender, health and nutrition and gives them a new confidence More...

A women's group fighting sexual harassment in Kanpur finds hundreds of supporters More...

Belaku started as a small health research project in rural Karnataka. But then the women said it was all very well to tell them about nutrition and eating right, but who was going to pay for it? Thus began the livelihoods initiative, Kirana  More...

The Datamation Foundation uses ICT to tackle the problem of sex-selective abortions. Confidential complaints against law-breakers can be registered on its website, registration of ultrasound equipment is tracked online, and computer carts and community radio take messages into rural areas More...

Jabala's Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour More...

An impressive federation of 1,410 women's self-help groups spread across virtually every village in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, funds literacy, health and economic empowerment at the local level More...

In Saurashtra and the Panchmahals district of Gujarat ANANDI is ensuring that women set the agenda for infrastructure development, food security and much more. Women here have rebuilt 700 quake-damaged homes, and are trained in disaster-proof construction, repair of handpumps and the digging of wells More...

A brief history of the campaign against sex selective abortion in India More...

Self-employment among rural women gets a boost through the efforts of SEWA. More...

Illiterate tribal women in Uttar Pradesh equip themselves with non-conventional skills like repairing handpumps. More...

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