‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the c...

Homosexuality And Periods On The Governments Minds As It Launches 'Saathiya' Health Kit For Adolescents In India

The health ministry has turned its attention, and laudably so, to the 253 million adolescents growing up in contemporary India, many of whom are struggling to find answers ...

How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Lives In Rural India

Health Ministry's latest move seeks to start productive conversations around homosexuality, sex, consent, mental health among other things. In what comes as an unusual-yet-...

How Young Boys Bear The Burden Of Patriarchy In India

Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch.The 20-year-old is a co...

Human Rights Watch Submission To WHO High-Level Working Group On Health & Human Rights Of Women, Children & Adolescents

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the World Health Organization (WHO) High-level Working Group on Health and Human Rights of Women, Children a...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Adolescent Sexual Health: Time To Invest In A Healthy Future Generation

Good adolescent sexual health is the cornerstone of future healthy families and is essential for the development of optimal intimate and social relations including gender e...

Using Social Media to Prevent Adolescent Suicide

Distraught over a poor grade that she thought would ruin her life, the honor-roll student broadcast her suicide for anyone to see. Hours later, she was in the inpatient psy...

Refugee Children Are Five Times More Likely To Be Out Of School Than Others

A new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, jointly released by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) ahead ...