All marriages between Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) or Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and Indian citizens should be compulsorily registered in India, the Law Commission recommended to the Union government on Friday.

Childcare is a child rights issue.

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

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released a fresh data on the number of women and girls go missing in India. According to the Union ministry of home affairs, quoting NCRB data, 3,75,058 women above 18 years of age went missing from across the country in 2021 alone.

Using OECD evaluation criteria, we analysed the child protection schemes of Odisha to understand whether legal commitments on child protec

The study looks at the interrelated factors of transition from a pre-state forest dependent economy to a social system of an agricultural

The Odisha Police on Saturday booked a man for allegedly handing out instant 'triple talaq' to his wife after she lost money to cyber fraud.

Violence against women is legitimized by social norms, beliefs and institutions.

A majority of women in West Bengal and Jharkhand were married by the age of 21, while the proportion in Jammu and Kashmir was less than 10% in 2020. In Delhi, over 17% of women married before 21.

Noting that the gang-rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Ramesh Nagar in 2012 was done in the most “brutal and diabolic manner”, the Delhi high court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment (for the remainder of their natural lives) to three persons convicted of the crime.