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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The key findings of the report Women and Men in India 2014 (released in October, 2014), 16th Issue prepared by the Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation are as follows (Please click here to download Foreword & Preface ; Index ; Highlights ; Constitutional and Legal Rights ; Chapter 1 ; Chapter 2 ; Chapter 3 ; Chapter 4 ; Chapter 5 ; Chapter 6 ; Chapter 7 ; and Explanatory Notes ): Population and related statistics •…
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ccording to the report entitled “The Law and Son Preference in India: A Reality Check” by Advocate Kirti Singh, United Nations, November, 2013 (please click here to download): • Indian laws that ban child marriages, pre-natal sex selection tests and dowries are poorly implemented. There are laws existing in India that exclude daughters and widows from inheriting…
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The key findings of the report entitled Gender Pay Gap in the Formal Sector: 2006-2013 -WageIndicator Data Report (Preliminary Evidences from Paycheck India Data) can be accessed from here. Please click here to download the report. According to the report entitled: Women and Men in India 2013, 15th Issue, Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (please click to…
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According to the report Global and Regional Estimates of Violence against Women: Prevalence and Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Non-partner Sexual Violence (2013), prepared by WHO, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and South African Medical Research Council (please click here to access the report): • Overall, 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical…
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According to the report titled Tied in a Knot: Cross-region Marriages in Haryana and Rajasthan-Implications for Gender Rights and Gender Relations (click here to access) written by Reena Kukreja and Paritosh Kumar (2013) and produced by The Royal Norwegian Embassy: Executive Summary • In the last decade and a half, the male marriage squeeze in economically prosperous…
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According to The State of World Population 2012: By Choice, Not by Chance-Family Planning, Human Rights and Development, which has been produced by UNFPA, please click here and here to access: • As compared to 1 percent of young women, 26 percent of men in India (in the age group 15-24 years) are more likely to have high-risk sex with…
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According to Progress for Children: A Report Card on Adolescents (UNICEF-2012), Number 10, April, 2012, please click here to access: • Some 1.2 billion adolescents (10−19 years old) presently constitute 18 per cent of the world’s population. More than half of all adolescents live in Asia. In absolute numbers, India is home to more adolescents–around 243 million–than any…
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According to the report titled: Women and Men in India 2011, 13th issue, MoSPI, http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/women_men_2011_31oct11.pdf: • The average Indian woman bears her first child before she is 22 years old, and has little control over her own fertility and reproductive health. In rural India, almost 60 per cent of girls are married before they are 18. Nearly…
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