Feticide means 7,000 fewer girls a day in India
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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PATTRAN, India  - Manual labourer Gulzar Singh is   haunted by the day he exhumed baby foetuses from a pit outside   an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's   fight against female feticide.
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Men and women in developing  nations are marrying later, having fewer children and having  them later in life, U.N. demographers reported on Tuesday.
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Science & environment: Number of Indian wild tigers has dwindled to about 1,400, less than half the previous estimate
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The birth rate among adolescent and young teen girls in the United States fell sharply in the 1990s, hitting a 58-year-low in 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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NEW DELHI -- Indian women would be required to register their pregnancies and seek government permission for abortions under a proposal intended to curb abortions of female fetuses in the country, where boys are traditionally preferred.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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The World Bank says fewer people than ever are living in extreme poverty in East Asia and the Pacific due to economic growth of around seven per cent.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Boys are less keen to go to university than their female counterparts, a survey suggests.
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Â· Study of seven-year-olds shows wide gender gap Â· Conservatives accuse ministers of complacency
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A new survey finds AIDS infection rates in India are far lower than previously estimated, although the disease is worryingly concentrated in regions where business is booming
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The number of women in England opting for sterilisation has dropped sharply in recent years, figures show.
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Economic growth in China and India has dramatically reduced the number of people in Asia subsisting below the poverty level of $1 a day, but the total remains in the hundreds of millions, the International Labor Organization said Tuesday.
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India's population of wild tigers, which wildlife experts have long warned is on the decline, is dramatically lower than previously believed, according to initial results from an exhaustive study of tiger habitats released Wednesday.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.