Health systems and health professionals play a crucial role in responding to survivors of sexual violence.
Reflecting on the challenges faced by women and child survivors affected by and/or facing violence, including domestic violence, and support persons or organisations
On 11th August, 2020 the Times of India reported that on 9th August 8 prison staff in Taloja prison, Navi Mumbai had tested positive.
IT is indeed a tall claim, almost an impossible task - to set in motion the immobile-to create spectators who would continue to perform.
The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985); the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988); the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition, (Sen and Sengupta, 1983 and education (Mankekar, 1985); and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985
STRONG preference for sons over daughters exists in the Indian subcontinent, east Asia, north Africa and west Asia unlike in the western countries [Muthurayappa et al 1997, Lancet 1990, Okun 1996].
Long back in 1971, the committee on the status of women in India was appointed by the Government of India to undertake a comprehensive examination of all the questions relating to the rights and status of women in the context of changing social and economic conditions in the country and new probl