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  • Helen R. Sekar, Otojit Kshetrimayum
    V.V. Giri National Labour Institute
    2017

    The study aimed at examining the prevalence of child labour in the villages of East and West Jaintia Hills Districts of Meghalaya where coal mining is predominant.

  • Jayanthi Natarajan
    The Hindu
    1999

    It is unfortunate that a measure of confusion has set in about the precise nature and ramifications regarding the immolation - whether self, sati, or otherwise of the 55-yearold Charan Shah on the funeral pyre of her husband at Satpura in Uttar Pradesh on November 11.

  • Subhashini Ali
    The Hindu
    1999

    The self-immolation by Charan Shah on the funeral pyre of her husband in a remote hamlet in Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh has elicited a spate of articles dealing with the practice of Sati. Of these, a number of articles by Ms.

  • P.M. Damodaran
    Deccan Herald
    1999

    It was in Deorala village in Rajasthan on September 3, 1987 that the last incident of sati was reported. Then an 18-year-old Roop Kanwar had committed sati by jumping into the funeral pyre of her 23-year-old Rajput husband, Maal Singh.

  • Lakshmi Lingam
    Kali for Women
    1998

    Health is a major issue in the women's movement, along with the struggle for justice, dignity and equality.

  • Cecilia Van Hollen
    Reproductive Health Matters
    1998

    In l995, nurses and doctors in many of the public maternity ward in the state of Tamil Nadu in India were routinely inserting IUDs immediately following childbirth and abortions, as part of the target-orientated family, planning policy.

  • Supriya Guha
    Kali for Women
    1998

    Kipling was paying tribute to the Vicereine who established the Fund associated with her name. This was an organisation which employed medical women (or 'lady doctors') to run a chain of hospitals and dispensaries all over India and Burma.

  • Manisha Gupte
    Understanding Women's Health Issues
    1998

    In the absence of a basic questioning of women's status and role in society, birth control, abortions-and even maternal health care end up merely replacing an old set of traditions with new ones.

  • Sandhya Srinivasan
    Sunday Times of India
    1997

    Should we fear the destruction of our culture because a 30-year-old woman from Chandigarh plans to `rent' her womb?

  • Susan Abraham
    The Lawyers
    1997

    As with Bhanwari Devi, gross injustice was committed in the Roop Kanwar sati case, when yet another session court in Rajasthan, acquitted all 32 of the accused in October last year.