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  • Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Neelanjana Pandey
    Population Council
    2016

    The objective of the

  • Aditi Iyer, Amar Jesani
    Population Council
    1999

    The notion of quality in the public health system is becoming increasingly an issue for policymakers and planners in India. The Eighth Five-Year Plan identified the poor quality of family welfare services as one of the factors

  • Vinay N. Paranjape
    Women's Link
    1999

    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.

  • Parvathi Menon
    Frontline
    1999

    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.

  • V. Ravendra Reddy
    Legal news and Views
    1996

    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.

  • Rani Jethmalani, P.K. Dey
    In Kali's Yug: Empowerment, Law and Dowry Death
    1995

    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.

  • D.N. Sandanshiv, Jolly Mathew
    In Kali's Yug: Empowerment, Law and Dowry Death
    1995

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