A significant proportion of the global population is comprised of adolescents and young people, with an estimated 1.2 billion individuals

Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

Mobility is generally defined as movement from one area to another and from one sector to the other for better earnings and employment as well as other purposes.

Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.

In a vast, multi-ethnic, multi-religious country like India, it is to be expected that we have several world-views operating at the same time in people's search for health and healing.

It is now common practice to infer the social status of women from their demographic characteristics. Yet it is not so easy to read through demographic progress, in terms of declines in mortality and fertility, to make unambiguous judgments about trends in women's social standing.

Cancer of the cervix is the most prevalent form of cancer in developing countries, and accounts for 25 to 50 per cent of all cancers occurring in Indian women.

Status literally means position in relation to others. The status enjoyed by women in any society is an index of the standard of its social organisation.

Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women.