Category : Humanitarian Affairs

In an effort to prevent illegal prenatal sex determination tests that lead to female foeticide, the Maharashtra government will rope in NGOs to carry out sting operations and identify malpractices at clinics. The proposal from the government is inspired by an act of

The government of India needs to repeal the sedition law, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), said civil rights activist Binayak Sen at a felicitation function in Kalyani, West Bengal.Earlier, Sen had accused the government

As focus at the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (May 8-13, 2011), in Geneva, came on to the unsavoury equation between poverty and the impact of disasters, CARE International warned that the increasing number of humanitarian disasters was eroding the

India recorded 25 million cases of malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That’s one-tenth the number of cases worldwide. It should be noted that earlier on, under the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme

After the “uterus removal for money scandal” of Rajasthan, another shameful incident involving gynaecologists has come to light from Kerala. An enquiry has confirmed that to facilitate holiday plans of gynaecologists at a state-run hospital in Alappuzha, Kerala, 21 caesarean sections were performed

Child rights NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, with assistance from police and labour departments, rescued 36 children who were being forced to do labour in Delhi. About half-a-dozen factories were raided and sealed in New Seelampur in northeast Delhi and the Khureji Khas area

In a shocking revelation through a Right to Information (RTI) application, it is found that three private nursing homes in Rajastan’s Dasua district removed uterus of 226 women out of 385 women patients between March and September last year. All these hospitals were

Sen is a sympathiser. Nothing beyond that,observed the Supreme Court (SC) today while granting bail to rights activist Dr Binayak Sen. The SC order reversed the decision of Chhattisgarh High Court that had convicted Sen for sedition and sentenced him to life imprisonment. A

If the administration of the malnutrition-hit Melghat region in Maharashtra is to be believed, the region has seen a marginal decline in infant mortality rate (IMR) and child mortality rate (CMR) as compared to 2009-10. The infant mortality rate has come down from

Attending a meeting with the Standing Committee on Law and Personnel, which is scrutinizing a bill to provide protection to those who help in unveiling corrupt practices, a group of NGOs demanded more security for whistleblowers and also asked for extension of the