A significant proportion of the global population is comprised of adolescents and young people, with an estimated 1.2 billion individuals

Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

Mobility is generally defined as movement from one area to another and from one sector to the other for better earnings and employment as well as other purposes.

Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.

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.

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

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).

Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women.