Trafficking of Women in South AsiaA Regional Perspective and Legal FrameworkINTRODUCTIONFor years the South Asia region has been a hot bed of paradoxes—from hosting the largest democracy in the world, to hosting the most volatile regional civic unres
notably Dr. James Rose and Dr. David Chanderbali, respectively the current vice-chancellor and Registrar, Mr. Tota Mangar, the Dean of the School of Education and Humanities, and Ms. Cecelia Mc Almont, the Head of the Department of Social Studies, are still serving the university...
A native of Goa and presently in Australia, she decided to take her message across the country using her simple mode of transport to do the calling — a bicycle. During her journey, she visits educational institutions, interact with people, educate them on the health and environment benefits ...
Most women with postpartum depression (PPD) in low- and middle-income countries remain undiagnosed and untreated, despite evidence for adverse effects on the woman and her child. The aim of this study was to identify the coping strategies used by women with PPD symptoms in rural Ethiopia to ...
Women are not employed in the iron ore mining belt in Goa due to the nature and intensity of work. Sampling and sample A purposive sampling was used to select women living in the mining communities in Goa and who reported experiences which negatively impacted their RH choices such as gender ...
Anurima Bhargava is the Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. She earned her law degree from Columbia Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. she was earlier the Director of the Education Practice at...
Postpartum depression (PPD), the onset of depressive episodes after childbirth, develops at a critical moment in a woman’s life and can continue for long periods [1,2]. The likelihood of depressive episodes can be twice as high as during other periods of a woman’s life [3], and they...
We compared different sampling and culture techniques for the detection of GBS. Methods A total of 300 swabs was taken from 100 pregnant women at 35-37 weeks of gestation. For each subject, one rectovaginal, one vaginal and one rectal ESwab were collected. Plating onto Columbia CNA agar (...
Amongst the findings of these studies are that women in politics have influenced the passage of abortion laws in the US; equal inheritance rights legislation, the reporting of crime against women, and the promotion of public health inputs to child survival in India; government spending on childca...
Violence against women is a major human rights and public health concern. By using the large scale data of National Family Health Survey-3, this chapter attempts to find the levels and determinants of intergenerational transmission of spousal violence ag