To Lower Maternal Deaths, India Urged to Reconsider Role of Midwives

In this village 30 miles south of Kolkata, three generations of women have depended on Saira Bewa to deliver their babies. On a languid July afternoon, Ms. Saira, 61, squat...

India’s ‘Womanifesto:’ How central are women’s rights to this year’s elections?

The gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 marked a sharp turning point for the debate on women’s rights in India...

Indian agriculture facing sustainability issues

We are very pleased with the progress we made since we announced our new integrated strategy. And we have been able to build a very different set of connections with our gr...

Most Ratified Human Rights Treaty is 25 Years Old

Augustine J. Veliath invites writers everywhere to own and use this powerful tool, the CRC.

Nearly 25 years ago, the world made a promise to childr...

Hospitals Safer Than Homes for Births

A new analysis suggests that giving birth in a hospital is considerably safer than having a baby at home or in a birthing center. Researchers analyzed data collected by the...

Toilets on all beaches by October: Goa tourism development corporation

Beaches in Goa are set for a major uplift this year, with Goa tourism development corporation (GTDC) promising public toilets and dressing rooms all along the coastline by ...

At long last, WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free

Through a robust national immunization programme, Bangladesh mostly rid itself of the crippling disease in 2003. But the country reported a final case of poliomyelitis in M...

Climate change as a matter of public health

For a long time people perceived climate change as an environmental issue–the concern of environmentalists, the concern of a few. It was reframed as a justice issue a...

Widows of the genocide: how Rwanda's women are rebuilding their lives

Widows’ associations, which sprung up after the 1994 massacre, are bucking Rwandan tradition by setting up retirement homes Odette Kayirere, left, of the Rwandan wido...