Gender and Developement
The ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM) target for reducing the global maternal mortality ratio (MMRatio) by 2030 was adopted as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target 3.1: reduce global MMRatio to less than 70 per lakh live births by 2030. Having targets for mortality reduction is important, but accurate measurement of maternal mortality remains challenging and…
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Gender and Development
The key findings of the World Population Prospects 2022 (released on July 11, 2022), which has been brought out by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, and India is projected…
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KEY TRENDS • Maternal Mortality Ratio for India was 370 in 2000, 286 in 2005, 210 in 2010, 158 in 2015 and 145 in 2017. Therefore, the MMRatio for the country decreased by almost 61 percent between 2000 and 2017 *14 • As per the NSS 71st round, among rural females aged 5-29 years, the main reasons for dropping out/ discontinuance were:…
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The key findings of the report titled Sample Registration System Statistical Report 2020 (released in September 2022), are as follows (please click here to access): • The SRS Statistical Report includes data on population composition by broad age groups, sex and marital status. Various fertility indicators like Crude Birth Rate, Total Fertility Rate, Age-specific fertility rate, General fertility…
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The key findings of the World Population Prospects 2022 (released on July 11, 2022), which has been brought out by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings • The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, and India is projected…
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On the first anniversary of the Hathras gangrape case, which led to the death of a young Dalit woman in September 2020, National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) took a look at the twelve landmark cases of sexual violence against Dalit women and girls from ten states across the country spanning across 35 years, from…
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Equality Now and Dignity Alliance International‘s co-authored report — Sexual Violence in South Asia: Legal and Other Barriers to Justice for Survivors (published in April, 2021) — looks at rape laws in India, including those relating to marital rape. Consent to marriage cannot and should never be construed as lifelong consent to sex, and nor should a marital relationship be…
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The report entitled Justice Denied: Sexual Violence and Intersectional Discrimination – Barriers to Accessing Justice for Dalit Women and Girls in Haryana (released in November 2020), which has been produced by Swabhiman Society, a grassroots organisation led by Dalit women, and international women’s rights organisation Equality Now, aims to understand and analyse the specific barriers to…
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The key findings of the State of World Population 2020 report entitled Against My Will – Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality (released in June 2020), published by the United Nations Population Fund, are as follows (please click here to access): • The newly released UNFPA report focuses on how women and…
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