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Eight-year-old forced into 'community sex'

In Andhra Pradesh, the parents of an eight-year-old pushed their daughter into a life condemned to sex work.

Child marriage a reality in Rajasthan

 

First local study on child sexual abuse ready

 

Women need to break free from stereotype attitude

Several speakers urged women to break free from their "stereotype attitude" to level their status with that of men at the inaugural of a two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on `Empowerment of Women

Ban posters, web sites, publications and television programmes which show women in poor light: Confederation of Women Organisations

The Confederation of Women Organisations in this district has urged the State and Central Governments to ban posters, web sites, publications and television programmes, "which show women in poor light."

Telefilm on female foeticide released

 

Punjab village breathes new life into girlchild

 

First jail term in female foeticide law

4000 cases, Haryana doctor first to get 2 yrs in prison under PNDT Act

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Child domestic workers more vulnerable to abuse

 

Police indifferent, escaped bonded labourers peeved

 

India’s new ban on child labour welcome, but it forgets work in agriculture & at home

 

A New Hope to end Domestic Child Labour

 

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Nutrition in India: what way now

 

Primary Education as a Fundamental Right,

S. Chandrasekhar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

Child Labour: from Gujarat, with dreadful memories

 

Child labour ban comes into force

 

Time to ban all forms of child labour

Madhura Swaminathan

Child Labourers rescued

 

Child labour - India's 'cheap commodity'

 

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Five crore female foetuses 'terminated' last year: Devi

 

Med Council scraps doc's licence

 

Depraved Doctors: amputating the healthy limps for lust of few thousands

Doctors are known for healing the wounds and saving lives, but for few criminal doctors’ it matters of hurting by amputating the healthy limps for lust of few thousands. The news of Doctors joining hands with beggar mafia appeared in CNN IBN telecast and shocked thousands across the nation.

Students stop going to school for fear of Sarpanch

 

Centre mulls mother's SC status for children

 

Crackdown on Sex Selective Abortions, Finally

 

Tribal woman ostracised for adopting children

 

Women demand equal pay for equal work

convention seeks a social security system for home workers

40 percent sex workers in Uttar Pradesh are OBCs

 

OBC Quota to get nod: Cabinet may clear Bill today

 

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Dalit woman thrased for touching a public tap

 

Infant mortality on the rise in India

 

Dalit girl victims of rape, battles for life

 

Indian Dalit women activist wins 'alternate Nobel Prize'