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At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryanas Rohtak district.-T.K. RAJALAKSHMI

Dividing children

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme has been conceived as a major intervention by the Central government to deal with the high rat

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Left stand has been consistent

The Womens Reservation Bill would not have made it through the Rajya Sabha but for the support of the Left parties. Brinda Karat, Communist Party of I

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An overcrowded maternity ward at the Government Sultania Zanana (Lady) Hospital in Bhopal. This photograph was taken in June 2009 when six women patients and a newborn died within 24 hours in the hospital. Complications during childbirth, internal bleeding, disseminated intra-vascular coagulation and other post-natal complications were cited as reasons.-A.M. FARUQUI

Health care hopes

The abject lack of focus on womens health has been one of the complaints of the womens movement against successive governments. By and large, elected

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Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily. His focus has been more on procedural changes.- SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

Half measure

The government takes a step towards speedy trial in cases of sexual offence but stops short of making definitional changes in law.

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Drug alert

FOR almost a fortnight in December 2009, leading newspapers and private television and radio channels kept warning the public about the dangers of ign

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At a rally in Allahabad, a file photograph. The majority of Indian women are grossly uninformed about how to go about seeking relief under the law.-RAJESH KUMAR SINGH/AP

Law and loopholes

ON October 26, 2006, Parliament enacted the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, not only to recognise the hitherto unrecognised and latent

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Brinda Karat: The government has a short attention span on issues relating to women and children.-R.V. MOORTHY

Deep infirmities in the? legal system

Brinda Karat: The

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Case of injustice

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An internally displaced Tamil child at a camp at Manik Farm in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, on December 23, 2009. In addition to war, new forms of exploitation have emerged, negating the progress made in the past century.-ERANGA JAYAWARDENA/AP

Who cares?

ON November 20, 1989, in what was a historic moment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted and opened for signature, ratificatio

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SITARAM YECHURY, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, A.B. Bardhan, CPI general secretary, and Prakash Karat, CPI(M) general secretary, with foreign delegates at the public session of the meeting.-SANDEEP SAXENA

Socialist agenda

OVER the last few years one has heard this constant prattle that socialism is dead and that Communist parties have lost their relevance. We have gathe

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Prakash Karat: The ATR reflects a lack of political will.-RAJEEV BHATT

For firm action at the earliest

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) was one of the parties that demanded the immediate tabling of the Liberhan Commission report and the Action Tak

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OSCAR CORDOVES: 'FOR Cuba, socialism means independence and sovereignty.'-SANDEEP SAXENA

Socialism is our only option

FOR Oscar Israel Martinez Cordoves, deputy head of the Department of International Relations, central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, the tr

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