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

The stark white room is echoing with dreams. "I want to become a doctor... I am engineer... I want to become a nun... (this evokes a riot of laughter) I want to become a dress designer... My dream is to become a social worker ....

This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.

The British first discovered female infanticide in India in 1789. Jonathan Duncan, then the resident in Benares province was asked by the Bengal council to settle the revenues in the province acquired by the raja of Benares.

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

A society is judged by the way it treats its women and children. So is a judicial system. Nothing is more horrifying than the sexual abuse of a child: nothing more reprehensible than a judicial system that subsequently victimises the victim, police behaviour that adds terror to agony.

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.

The Kandyan Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 23 of 2013, passed by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, revises the legal framework governing marriages and divorces within the Kandyan community.