Women & Child IAS Current Material GS 1

Women & Child IAS Current Material GS 1

1.     Globel estimate published by the world Health Org(WHO) indicate that about 1 in 3 (35 % ) women world wide have expirenced either phycical /sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence in their life time.

2.     Declined in women’s labour force participation from 31% to 24 % means  that India is among the countries with the lowest participation of women in the labour force. Rise in overall unemployment  has  two dimensional Locational and gender dimensions. We have to re examine the missing linkage between growth and employment.

3.     SC directed the setting up special; courts in the district that have over 100 cases of child abuse and sexual assault pending trial Under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) act. And to be set up within 60 days. Minister for women and child development informed RS that govt has proposed to set up 1023 fast track courts to clear the cases under the protection of children from sexual offence (POSCO)  Act.

4.     (Also Polity) Platform for effective enforcement for No child labour ((PENCIL) launched in :2017 , a separate online portal to ensure effective enforcement of the provision of the Child Labour Act and Smooth implementation of the National Child Labour Project scheme. Complaint can be filed by anybody on the pencil Portal. Is a central sector scheme for rehabilation of child labour.

5.     Female foeticide continues to increase at an alarming rate  as per Sample Registration System (SRS) data released in jul for the period 2015-2017. Sex ration at birth (SRB)has been dropping continuosly since census 2011 , coming down from 909 girls per thousand boys in 2013 to 896 girls in 2017. In period 2014-2016 out of 21 large states only kerala and Chhatisgarh had an SRB of above 950 girls per 1000 boys. My point – Every hospital in India should be connected through a system online , any delivery case in hospital should be entered on system with AADAR card and delivery status should be updated on the spot after delivery as boy / girl or any mishappening with maternal health . this will simplify our case of all data of counting of SRB, infant death ratio and meternal deaths. On the same time it should be connected to regional registrar for the name of child. Person should hav ea minimum charge. After that he/she can access via his mobile no on site and can process change name opetion upto three years age of child . parents were not sure about name till the schooling time of child. Fee should be increasing every time of change name request. This will reduse crowd in registrar office and help in good governance.

6.           Saudi Arabia on 02 Aug published new laws that loosen restriction on wamen by allowing all citizens, women and men alike, to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long standing guardianship policy that had controlled women’s freedom of movement.

7.         Only 2.8% of all the instance of sexual crime against children in 2017 were reported to be committed against boys, indicating that most cases remain undisclosed. Data emerged from the first gender disaggregated enumeration of such crimes by the National Crime Record Bureau. The report Published earlier recorded 33,549 crimes committed against girls under the Protecxtion of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act in 2017 and 956 against boys.

8.           According to Jaccha Baccha Survey a high proportion of women do not eat enough during Pregnancy.

9.           MHA has sanctioned Women Help Desk in Police Stations Across the country. Sanctioned 100 Crore from Nirbhaya Fund. Lady Police officer would be deployed at these help desks. Desks would have enlisted panel of experts like lawyers, psychologists and NGOs to facilitate legal aid, counseling, shelter,rehabilitation and training.

10.       India has slipped four places to 112^th rank globally in terms of gander gap amid widening disparity in terms of women’s health and survival and economics particiapation. Iceland remains on top. The index measures the extent of gender based gaps on four key parameters- 1) Economic Participation and Opportunity 2) Educational attainment 3) Health and Survival 4) Political empowerment. Concern- Participation of women in the labour force is also among lowest in the world. Female estimated earned income is only one fifth of male income., India’s position (150^th) on the very bottom of the Health and Survival subindex( determined-  skewed sex ration at birth, violence, forced marriage and discrimination in access to health) . Political empowerment (18^th rank) is a good news.