Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) can be a powerful strategy for empowering women and achieving gender equality, by addressing gender concerns along the policy cycle of

The available literature on evolution of Indian culture and civilization reveals that although the ancient writers pretended to record their revered admiration for the womanhood yet in actual practice women have always been suppressed and exploited by the dominant male members of the society.

Hoardings put up by the traffic police at prominent places along Bangalore’s traffic-congested road exhort reckless drivers to go slow. Grim statistics loom over traffic snarls – 704 men and women died in traffic accidents in the city in 1997, 726 in 1998 and 168 until June 1999.

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

Dowry has been a widespread social evil among the Hindus. Now it has spread to other communities also such as Muslims and Christians as well. The Parliament passed the Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 with a view of eradicate the rampant evil.

This study seeks to keep alive the struggle for justice by recapturing the process involved in three cases WARLAW [1]has conducted in the courts.

Prior to 1983, every form of violence committed within the family, either in the natal or the spousal home, was not considered an offence.

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