Life Gave Me An Opportunity To Define Who I Am Today: Dia Mirza

I don’t give in and I don’t believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way,” says actor Dia Mirza. She credits her mother for this ...

Mobile Phones Hand-Hold Mothers Through Pregnancy

Tabassum, a pale fair young woman who resides in the slums of New Seemapuri on Delhi-Ghaziabad border, is all of twenty-four. She is already pregnant with her third baby. T...

Child Rights Commission Demands Implementation Of Supreme Court Rules On School Buses

Concerned about the increasing number of deaths of children in school bus accidents, the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) at a meeting w...

Naomi Campbell 'Humbled' By Refugee Encounter

Naomi Campbell felt "humbled" by her recent visit to a Syrian refugee camp. The 46-year-old supermodel met children at the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan and subsequently ...

Paediatrics Academy Starts Drive On Child Rights

To make parents aware about the child rights and help children safeguard their own rights, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) have initiated a year long awareness campaign...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...

INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

Child Labor Rising Sharply In India's Cities, Report Says

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children — many under 9 years old — in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and l...

Lok Sabha Passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; Paid Leaves Increase

The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 protects the employment of women in her maternity period and entitles her of maternity benefit (Credit: iStock Images) Almost six months aft...