Two correspondents of The Times of India have been recognized for highlighting gender inequities. The Laadli Award, instituted by NGO Population First, for promoting gender sensitivity, has gone to special correspondent Himanshi Dhawan and principal correspondent Sukhbir Siwach. Dhawan received the award for her report highlighting single women being left out from government's flagship scheme, NREGS. Siwach received a special award for consistently reporting on khaps and their gender bias, while factoring in...

Curriculum and classroom teaching in Delhi University at the post-graduate level does not reflect adequate gender sensitivity, a gender audit conducted by the University's Women's Study and Development Centre has revealed. As per the post-graduate level gender audit report, though most of the Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines do have gender components in their syllabi, it is inadequate and teacher participation in workshops and seminars on gender issues is “rather low.” The...

A sustainable population stabilisation strategy needs to be embedded in a rights-based and gender-sensitive local community needs-led approach. An authoritarian top-down target approach is not the answer. The evolution of government-led population stabilisation efforts in India goes back to the start of the five year development plans in 1951-52. A national programme was launched, which emphasised ‘family planning' to the extent necessary to reduce birth rates to stabilise the population at...

The Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen said on child domestic workers that “it is not economic poverty but rather political poverty that is depriving children their rights to education and pushing them to labour force. Our actions should aim at attacking this political poverty to bring education to the reach of children and free child domestic workers from the bondage.” The child domestic labour is common and traditional form of...

For the UNFPA Laadli Media Awards for gender sensitivity CHANDIGARH: “It is a sad reality that even today the girl child is unwanted and often murdered in the womb and the increased presence of science in our lives has fuelled this evil instead of decreasing it,” said UNFPA-Laadli Media Awards for gender sensitivity regional coordinator Minu Talwar at a press conference here. Inviting entries for the second UNFPA-Laadli Media Awards for...