India took a giant, albeit belated, step towards globalisation when the Delhi high court delivered a historic judgement to amend a 149-year-old colonial-era law — Section 377 of the IPC — and decriminalise private consensual sex between adults of the same sex.......
Sujatha Rao, director-general of the National AIDS Control Organisation, explains in an exclusive interview with Rashme Sehgal why it is important as part of the HIV/AIDS programme in India to promote life skills education amongst young people. NACO receives a huge amount of funding, which has crossed $1billion from the Global Fund alone, apart from receiving funding from USAID, UNDP and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation..
Data released in the Economic Survey of Delhi for 2008-2009 shows that the number of children dying within the first year of birth has almost doubled in the past two years. As per the report the infant mortality rate in 2007 was 25.4 deaths per 1,000 children between the ages of 0 and 1 years, compared to 12.9 in 2006 and 18.1 in 2005......
Young People with
information and knowledge on sensitive issues concerning them, so that
they are able to make informed choices and right decisions and are
ready to venture into this world with courage and conviction
I'm youth, I'm joy, I’m a little bird that has
broken out of the egg..
They say, “The Youth of a Nation are the trustees
of posterity.” We believe in equipping the youth of today
with information and knowledge on various sensitive issues
concerning them, so that, the little bird that has broken out of the
egg is able to make informed decision and is ready to take off …..to
newer horizons, with courage and conviction. To see more click on About YRSHR
