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What is health equity? Health equity can be defined in several ways. One commonly used definition of health equity is when all people have “the opportunity to ‘attain their full health potential’ and no one is ‘disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance”. The U.S. Department of Health […]

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.” Violence against women is a social, economic, developmental,

Women bear a disproportionately high burden of unpaid domestic work and care work in India. They carry a disproportionately higher burden of unpaid work, namely, unpaid domestic services as well as unpaid care of children, the old, and the disabled for their respective households. Women do this job not necessarily because they like it or

Parliament has passed 3 labour code bills aimed at labour welfare reforms covering more than 50 crores organized and unorganized workers in the country. This opens up the doors for social security to those in the self-employment sector. These three Bills are Social Security Code, 2020. Code on Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code,

What is rare disease? A rare disease is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population. It is estimated that globally around 6000 to 8000 rare diseases exist with new rare diseases being reported in the medical literature regularly. However, 80% of all

Social movements mainly take the form of non-institutionalised collective political action which struggle for political and /or social transformation. In India, these movements occurred since past time. The phrase ‘movement’ is often used differently by different social activists, political leaders and scholars. Some academics use the term ‘movement’ interchangeably with ‘organisation’ or ‘union’. Other social

Recently, the Confederation of Indian Industry (Southern Region) has announced a competition on social entrepreneurship. The competition is for existing early stage social enterprises and students with entrepreneurial ideas that are socially focused and with significant social impact. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the development of India, partnering industry, Government

Media is the means of communication that reaches or influences people widely, has a significant place in the statecraft machinery especially in the age of information revolution. It is the source of information for a society regarding any issue be it local, regional or global, people rely and even trust on what is presented to