One of the purposes of family planning programmes in developing countries is to provide for the unmet needs of couples for contraception.

The study of human sexuality is not a recent interest. The history of sexual medicine is the history of human existence; the thread of sexuality is woven deeply in its fabric.

While talking about law and homosexuality, I am reminded of a story of a washerman and his donkey. The donkey refused to move with the heavy bundle of clothes on his back from his house to the pond. The washerman nailed a carrot to a stick, which was tied in front of the animal's mouth.

Recent activities of the international women's health movement have generated considerable interest in women's sexuality and gender research.

Most of us acquire knowledge regarding sex and sexuality, through various formal and informal avenues. Much of the information acquired through infornal sources is unlikely to be accurate or correct. Sex being a topic, which is not openly discussed is shrouded in secrecy.

This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.

Health is a major issue in the women's movement, along with the struggle for justice, dignity and equality.

Women's health is an outcome of their social existence. The Indian women, though they had participated overwhelmingly in the National Freedom Movement, suffered since various aspects of their lives including health were under the control of the patriarchal social norms.

Of all the forms that violence against women can assume, sexual harassment is the most ubiquitous and insidious; all the more so because it is deemed 'normal' behaviour and not an assault on the female entity.

This paper analyses, from the perspective of women's human rights, an unsuccessful attempt to amend the abortion law in the Penal Code of Sri Lanka in 1995.