The report highlighted the alarming figures and information on child sexual abuse in India. Social taboo and stigma attached to child sexual abuse and lack of faith in the system’s ability to respond and deliver emerged as key factors that kept children away from reporting abuse.
Women experience disadvantage and oppression differentially, based on their status, context and location.
This paper explores poverty and gender analysis in the hill state of Uttarakhand from the perspective of mountain specificities that are interrelated and have direct bearing on the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of the mountain life.
This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers.
Beyond use value and exchange value, commodities encapsulate semiotic values too. They function as markers of status, domesticity, social discipline, rebelliousness and so on. These functions are contextual, contingent and change over time.