Even though sanitation was es

Most discussions of reservations for women in India have contextualized the issue in relation to the p

A preference for sons or for more sons than daughters has been documented in several countries in the world.

Vanangana, a women’s group, recently organised a campaign against domestic violence in Banda district in Uttar Pradesh. To provoke the women themselves to break their silence on this issue. Vanangana, in 30 villages, performed a play based on a real incident and followed it up with discussions.

The expectant and lactating mothers are considered as nutritionally vulnerable group especially in the developing countries of the world. Due to nursing process mothers are subjected to nutritional stresses.

The women's movement in India launched campaigns against rape, domestic violence, sexism in advertisements as well as against state repression during caste and communal riots in the early eighties.

In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health.