The study provides critical understanding of women’s rights to livelihoods in forest sector.

The Human Development Report for 1995 published by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) made a striking revelation that there was not a single country where women enjoyed equality with men.

Shelter is one of the basic needs of human beings next only to food and clothing. ‘Housing’ is fundamental to the formation of individual capabilities and identities and family and community ties. It is as essential for a human being as air, water, food, and clothing.

India is among the first group of countries along with others in Africa to identify the "girl child" as the focus of attention for improving the social and economic status of women.

Rapid advancements in medical technologies in recent years have opened the road to wide-ranging interventions in the sphere of reproduction. Significant among the technologies which facilitate such interventions and thereby