The children of unwed mothers and rape victims can live in this country with the fundamental rights of privacy, liberty, and dignity, the Kerala High Court has said and allowed a person to include his mother’s name alone in the birth certificate, identity certificates and other documents.
Days after a 33-year-old woman allegedly killed herself in southeast Delhi's Jaitpur, having been "forced to undergo abortion 14 times" by her live-in partner in a span of eight years, police have booked the man on charges of rape, forced abortion, and abetment of suicide.
He was on the run for the last one month after causing death of a 27-year-old woman
Long after you have driven away from the cluster of villages around the Usilampatti belt of Madurai, the images of bright-coloured hair ribbons, fragrant jasmine flowers in neatly combed hair, deep vermillion bindis on the forehead and the silver anklets worn by little girls with sparkling, wide,
Gender violence causes more death and ability among women aged 14-44 than cancer, malaria, tmffic accidents, or even war.
Abortion is possibly the most divisive women's health issue that policy makers and planners face particularly in developing countries where safe abortion facilities are not available to most women. The health risk of abortion multiplies manifold if a woman has to resort to it repeatedly.
The question of women's health seems to be cast in adjunct to reproduction, at least as far as the Indian state is concerned.
Complications following illegally induced abortions have been recognised as an important cause of mortality and morbidity in Myanmar.
In many developing countries, women's activities, traditionally confined to the household, have changed over time.
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.