This report comes to you at a time when questions around who can be family and whether adult citizens of this country have a say in formin

India is a signatory to the Alma Ata declaration and has committed herself to achieving "Health for All by the Year 2000". Since then, a lot of planning, effort and public expenditure has been devoted to improving the health of the people both in rural and urban areas of the country.

Acceptance and sustained use of family planning especially of modern spacing methods have generally been low in developing countries particularly in India. The use rate for modern spacing methods was only 6 per cent among the eligible couples in India in 1992 (IIPS, 1995).

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations.

In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the scope and significance of gynaecological problems experienced by poor women in developing countries.

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

This study aims to understand the access to justice and the justice delivery system from the perspective of victims of marital violence especially in the context of r

Most people in India are now aware that the country's population is growing rapidly, and appreciate the need for controlling its rate of growth.

There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.