Assam has passed a resolution in its Assembly supporting the swift implementation of 33% reservation for women in state assemblies. This mo...

West Bengal's Annapurna Yojna will soon replace Lakshmir Bhandar Scheme. Eligible women will receive Rs 3,000 monthly. This financial aid a...

Nepal is considering a "Romeo-Juliet Clause" to differentiate consensual teenage relationships from rape. The proposed amendment would exem...

Social media platforms are now removing non-consensual intimate imagery within two hours of complaints, a significant improvement from the ...

An angry woman in Mumbai, who was stuck in a traffic jam when she was on her way to pick her child from school, vented out her frustration ...

Parliament is considering a new law to bring 33 percent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies starting from the 2029 elec...

Parliament will convene for a special session to advance the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. This move introduces a 33 percent reservation fo...

The UAE has expanded its fostering program, now allowing foreign residents to care for children of unknown parentage. New rules permit marr...

Iraq stands at the brink of a legal upheaval that could change the course of women’s rights in the country. With a proposal to lower the ag...

Women government employees can now take 180 days of maternity leave if they have children through surrogacy, according to amendments to the...

The Centre has allowed female government employees to nominate their eligible child/children for family pension instead of their husband, a...

The parliamentary committee examining the bill to raise the age of marriage for women has been given another extension. The committee will ...

If a deceased government servant or pensioner is survived by a spouse, family pension is first granted to the spouse. Other family members ...

This year, WCD ministry classified all its major programmes under three umbrella schemes -- Mission Poshan 2.0 (strengthen nutritional cont...

The amended bill also propose 12 weeks of maternity leave to commissioning mothers who use surrogates to bear a child.

Over 40 per cent of dropouts are from the minority communities, backward classes and scheduled castes of India, says the National Sample Su...

The Women and Child Development Ministry is eliciting views of other ministries before amending the anti-dowry Act, the Rajya Sabha was inf...