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December 9, 2020 "The deep-set nature of gender norms explains why change is slow, and why it demands more than a few individuals changing their own attitudes and behaviour - change is needed across society." Gender norms are the implicit informal rules about appropriate behaviour for people of different genders that most people accept and follow. This report from Overseas Development Initiative (ODI)'s Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALiGN) platform examines how gender norms have changed in the 25 years since the United Nations (UN)'s Beijing P...

29 December 2020 - The recently released partial data from the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) has revealed two counts on which the country has regressed. Child nutrition has become worse in the last five years, wiping off our gains of the previous 20 years, and in five states, over 30 per cent of women aged 18-49 years have experienced spousal violence.  The percentage of stunted, wasted and underweight children has grown in the majority of states. Rates of stunting have risen in rich states such as Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Himachal Pradesh, all of which had lowere...