Girls

This report analyses the election affidavits presented by sitting MPs and MLAs from across 28 states and 8 union territories in India to documents the status of the criminal cases …

five years on second conviction Importation of girls upto 21 years of age Section 366B Imprisonment …

In Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, girls like Asha Bassi have to fight off pressures of marriage in their struggle to get an education …

In Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, girls like Asha Bassi have to fight off pressures of marriage in …

This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …

falling behind and throwing millions of women and girls back into times of strife and need. Big lifts in … in 30 years. Economic prospects for women and girls are threatened by the continued downturns and …

Young girls from Scheduled Caste communities in Punjab have a longer track to cover when it comes to reaching their goal of a secure job. Poverty, caste identity, lack of nutrition and limited education …

Young girls from Scheduled Caste communities in Punjab have a longer track to cover when it comes to …

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport …

Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport …

situation. A number of cases like hers, are blurring the lines between trafficking and smuggling of young girls, under the cover of marriage …

lines between trafficking and smuggling of young girls, under the cover of marriage …

over a decade to prevent child marriages in this district of Maharashtra where over 40 per cent of girls are married before the age of 18. Together, they have stopped thousands of such weddings from taking …

district of Maharashtra where over 40 per cent of girls are married before the age of 18. Together, they …

In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …

many books continue to under-represent women and girls, and to portray men and women in stereotypical … portrayal of stereotypical gendered roles. Women and girls occur less frequently, are portrayed as more passive … materials. Our particular focus is on girls education and gender bias. Girls education is a major global policy … has focused primarily on the amount of schooling girls receive and the cognitive skills they obtain. If … care about equality of opportunity for boys and girls, we need to look beyond the building of human capital …

Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030. Covering 96 per cent of the world's women and girls, the 2024 Index measures progress on gender equality in 139 countries using three reference years …

of countries – home to over 1 billion women and girls in 2022 – stagnated or even declined on gender … affecting services and protection for women and girls. Women’s views on food costs (Ind. 2.4) and comfort … and indeed both are on the rise. For women and girls, these realities hit their bodies, their choices … personal safety first. The number of women and girls living in conflict-affected countries reached … being displaced by climate change are women and girls. Only just over half (57 per cent) of women globally …

All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), the oldest national women’s organization in India was born in January, 1927 in Poona. But the genesis had actually begun much earlier.

the main impediments in the path of education of girls. 7 Delhi 1928 The Second Conference was in Delhi … resolved on compulsory primary education for girls. This conference marked the origin of the All India … has grown to be one of the foremost colleges for girls in Delhi. 12 1935  An interesting development in … country set up at the time are active in the field of girls’ education even to this day. 23 AIWC and Elections …