There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.

This report aims to evaluate the processes and implementation mechanisms of judicial waivers across different jurisdictions.

In 1991, an article on the Maternity Care Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, reported a substantial decline in direct obstetric deaths in the intervention area, but not in the control area. The decline was attributed primarily to the posting of midwives at the village level.