Denial of women's rights means denial of human rights of half of humanity. Gender based violence is one of the worst … forms of violation of woman's basic human rights. Gender Violence is highly pervasive and the increasing number of cases … but also addressing violence prevention. The present paper discusses women's rights and the nature of gender based …

men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …