Shireen Jejeebhoy is a social scientist and demographer. She is the founder and director of Aksha Centre for Equity and Wellbeing; and vice president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
The recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights is a significant one for it looks at the law through the lens of women’s rights and autonomy, and expands access to services for medical termination…
India’s recently amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act is quite progressive on paper but its translation into practice makes abortion as inaccessible in the country as in many of the most…
The worsening of poverty during the pandemic may well have led to a worrying spurt in marriages of girl children in India. The information available indicates that has happened, pushing back the…
