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What gender gap lens reveals about declining fertility rate

June 27, 2025 12:34 pm

How is the falling fertility rate linked to India’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap Index? What are the factors that regulate reproductive freedom and choice?

IVF debt, insecurity and judgment: The one-sided costs that women bear for ‘fertility’

June 24, 2025 7:18 am

Infertility isn’t only because women have poor health and hectic lifestyles; men are going through the same, minus the guilt. Men are always assumed to be virile, and women are automatically assumed to be infertile

'Millions unable to realise reproductive goals': UNFPA State of World Population Report 2025 reveals crisis of fertility aspirations

June 10, 2025 2:38 pm

The State of World Population Report 2025 finds that one in five people globally expect not to have the number of children they desire due to the prohibitive cost of parenthood, job insecurity, housing, and other concerns.

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

July 15, 2024 10:33 pm

Activists and human rights groups were worried that a reversal of the ban in Gambia would overturn years of work against the centuries-old practice that's often performed on girls younger than 5 and rooted in the concepts of sexual purity and control.

India could bring maternal deaths down to 70 per 1 lakh live births: UNFPA report

April 18, 2024 9:02 pm

At this rate, India is likely to achieve the global 2030 SDG target of 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, before time, according to a UNFPA report

UNFPA, TechGig organise Hackathon to tackle gender based violence; here's how to apply

September 09, 2022 9:14 pm

The winning team of the hackathon will be awarded Rs 1,50,000, and Rs 1,00,000 and Rs 50,000 will be awarded to the first and second runner-ups respectively.

UNFPA India chief, two others accused of harassment

February 17, 2018 10:45 am

In a letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, the complainant alleged that she was harassed for providing “evidence of misconduct by UNFPA staff, including religious intolerance, conspiracies on sexual harassment” at workplace.

Five-day programme on youth and peace building begins in Chandigarh

October 04, 2017 6:11 am

Delivering the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony Dr MM Goel, Director, RGNIYD, said that the youth needs to be empowered to create a smart future.

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