Home is where empowerment is

Empowering women through housing schemes has been one of the most heartening initiatives of the Government. The RBI, the financial sector...

Skill and be skilled

Sangita is a little anxious. She has already missed the morning train back home to Rewari, Haryana. As she waits at the Old Delhi railway station...

Jansatta story by pradip

Keonjhar district hotbed of sorcery killings

Gate Munda (30) and her husband Pandu Munda were living a happy life with their four children, till the fateful day ruined their life. The couple......

Women asset ownership: SHGs are ringing in a silent revolution in Satara

When 51-year-old Prabhakar Narve (name changed) says, “I have added my wife’s name to my property,” there is absolutely no sense of pride in his voice.....

Save the girl child's right to inheritance, join the HerShare campaign!

How many times has it happened that the male child gets more benefits, monetarily and socially in the Indian society than the girl child? COUNTLESS TIMES!.....

Property rights in India: Women are not getting their due; here is how

While the debate around the Uniform Civil Code is focused on marriage, divorce and maintenance, inheritance and property laws for women, too, need......

Girls Count's stand on PAC's recommendation to make sex selection compulsory in Maharashtra

A group made of 24 men and one woman has come up with yet another recommendation on women's maternal health and reproductive rights, and they're calling it "revolutionary".....

Girls Count's stand on PAC's recommendation to make sex selection compulsory in Maharashtra

The classic Margaret Atwood novel is the story of a world in which-among other horrible things-women's reproductive rights go completely AWOL, and one class of women are enslaved only to give birth......

'Each Click Counts' - the travelling photo exhibition reaches Lady Sri Ram College

NEW DELHI: 'Each Click Counts' - the travelling photo exhibition, focusing on the importance of girl-child in India made its way to Lady Sri Ram College. The exhibition aims at generating awareness regarding the declining child sex ratio and gender based discrimination.Born out of the concern on the decreasing Child Sex Ratio, Girls Count and....

Co-opt civil society in fight against female foeticide: Report

NGOs campaigning against the growing menace of female foeticide on Friday made a strong pitch for including civil society actors in efforts to check sex determination tests that have been banned under the Preconception & Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act of 1994.....