The planet is getting polarized in demographic and economic terms. Developing countries experience problems with their population growth along with pervasive poverty.
This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.
If oppression were to be tackled by enacting laws, then the last decade (19809) could be declared as the golden era for Indian women, when laws were given on a platter.
Domestic violence against women is increasingly recognised as a major health and social problem in India. It is also a concern for public health.
The British first discovered female infanticide in India in 1789. Jonathan Duncan, then the resident in Benares province was asked by the Bengal council to settle the revenues in the province acquired by the raja of Benares.
Violence is a state, of exploitation, discrimination, upholding of unequal economic and social structures, the creation of an atmosphere of terror, threat or reprisal and forms of religio-cultural and political violence [1] It can be perpetrated by those in power against the powerless or by the p
Women in India have been facing violence in all spheres of life for thousands of years. They face domestic, political and social violence also, making it a multifaceted and complicated issue.
As with Bhanwari Devi, gross injustice was committed in the Roop Kanwar sati case, when yet another session court in Rajasthan, acquitted all 32 of the accused in October last year.
Female infanticide - the killing of female infants because they are female- has occurred not only in several cultures across history, but is known to occur in contemporary societies as well [George et al 1992].
Child abuse manifests itself in several forms and dimensions - physical exploitation (child labour), emotional trauma (child prostitution) and marital harassment (child marriage).