Category: Gender
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Sexual and Reproductive Well Being in India
India’s Sexual & Reproductive Health, Well Being and Rights are yet to be addressed in a manner that fulfills the country’s international obligations. Our Policy Brief studies these policy gaps and outlines the necessary course of action for bettering the sexual and reproductive health landscape in India. Click here to read the Policy Brief
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Measuring the Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Case Study of Gujarat
This Research Brief provides an overview of the sexual and reproductive health in the State of Gujarat and how its policies are faring on the Sustainable Development Index of the United Nations (Agenda 2030) in relation to Good Health and Well Being. Click here to read the Research Brief
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Medical Termination of Pregnancy: A Woman’s Body but a Woman’s Choice?
By Lakshmi Kailasan, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi. Medical termination of pregnancy which is more commonly addressed as abortion, may be defined in medical terms as the premature exit of the products from the uterus. To explain it in simple terms, it is the removal of an unwanted foetus. Going back in time…
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“Period” of Change: Acknowledging the Right to Menstrual Health
By Tanya Chandra, Founder, LexQuest Foundation. It can’t be stressed enough that menstruation is a mere biological phenomenon, so why does it bother a society so much that we need policies for menstruating women? To answer the aforementioned, one has to acknowledge the closely knit cultural and social spaces along with the psycho-social contexts in…
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Bride Trafficking: A Predicament in Dire Need of a Resolution?
By Ankush Kejriwal, Alliance University, Bengaluru. Here’s a thought-provoking presentation on the topic of Bride Trafficking in India, a troublesome complication prevalent in our society:
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Right to Menstrual Health Project
There is enough literature on how menstruation is a taboo, and how that fact adversely affects women’s and adolescent girls’ health in the country, but what has escaped our attention is how there are no well implemented or exemplary policies in place to address these concerns for effective Menstrual Hygiene Management. We thus launched the…
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Brides for Sale: India’s Sorrow?
By Tanya Chandra, Founder, LexQuest Foundation. As India’s latest Anti-Trafficking Bill awaits informed modifications and superior content editions, it’s unfortunate that a major component of human trafficking which concerns the sinister trade of women and young girls across several States of India has somehow escaped the eye of our Legislators. Bride Trafficking, a practice so…
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The Untold Story of India’s Sold Brides
By Sajith Anjickal, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Bride trafficking is an unlawful activity wherein brides are bought and sold against their will only to be subjected to sexual and domestic slavery. It is one of those pervasive yet indiscernible crimes that affect women. India is home to a rather massive, organized and lucrative bride…
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From the Lens of Humiliating Stares and Jockstrap Jibes: The Laws Governing Prostitutes in India
By Adv. Shriya Maini. Co-Authored by Pooja Jasani, Gujarat National Law University. 2017 saw the release of an exciting Bollywood flick based on the contentious subject of sex workers in India and their argumentative profession of prostitution. Begum Jaan revolved around a group of prostitutes struggling for survival amidst humiliating stares and jockstrap jibes. The female…
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Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana: A Suggestive Approach for Supported Motherhood
By Sanidhya Sadanand Nayak, Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies, Bengaluru. Not many in India discuss miscarriages, failed pregnancies or stillbirths, often blaming fate rather than broaching the matter diagnostically. The connection between the ill-health of the woman and the failure of pregnancy is hardly ever noticed, let alone acknowledged. In a country where more than half of…