Indian government plans to adopt girls to check feoticide
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The Indian government plans to open centres where people can abandon unwanted daughters in a bid to tackle the abortion of female foetuses and infanticide, a report said.
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Seema's uphill quest for a high school diploma and ultimately a nursing degree -- a goal so audacious that she has yet to mention it to her parents -- is emblematic of one of India's most urgent social challenges: keeping girls in school.
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The government agrees to look into funding a first men-only refuge for victims of forced marriage.
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West Bengal state in India is to begin a birth control programme for elephants because it lacks funds for their upkeep.
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Villagers in eastern India have been lining up to get their cattle photographed as part of a new scheme to stop smuggling of the animals into Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday.
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India plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female foeticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
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Children who do not conform to gender norms are being supported in their choice by parents and doctors.
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India is taking bids for an independent evaluation of the country&#39;s National AIDS Control Organization to identify ways to improve HIV prevention and treatment in the country, Indian health minister Anbumani Ramadoss announced Thursday.
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Parents will be able to check if people have child sex convictions under trials of a new policy.
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The government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh considers plans to send farmers to East Africa.
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Plans to improve the way access to children is handled when parents divorce are due to be announced by ministers.
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India has banned child weddings but half of the nation's women are still married off before the age of 15, according to a new government report obtained by AFP on Friday.
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India plans to recruit one young man  and woman from every large village in the country to over the  next five years teach their peers about safe sex and HIV, a  health official said on Wednesday.
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PATNA, India  - Young girls and their mothers huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of the city's main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (half a dollar) a day.
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Plans for a national support network for runaway children in England are to be announced by ministers.
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The authorities in Nepal decide to grant paternity leave to government employees.
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A panel of experts is expected to recommend whether girls should be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.