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Current Awareness Bulletin No. 8 August 2012 Current Awareness Bulletin Centre for Women’s Development Studies 25, Bhai Vir Singh Marg (Gole Market), New Delhi-110001, India. Ph.: 011-32226930, 32226931 Fax: 91-23346044 E-mail: [email protected] | URL: www.cwds.ac.in/library/library.htm CONTENTS Section 1: Journals/ Periodicals/ Newsletters Articles Child Abuse ........................................................................ 001-002 Children .............................................................................. 003-006 Children’s Rights ................................................................ 007 Demography ....................................................................... 008 Education ............................................................................ 009 Employment ....................................................................... 010-011 Eunuch ................................................................................ 012 Family ................................................................................. 013-016 Feminism ............................................................................ 017-020 Fertility ............................................................................... 021-022 Girl Child ............................................................................ 023-026 Health ................................................................................. 027-028 Laws ................................................................................... 029-030 Migration ............................................................................ 031-032 Personalia ........................................................................... 033 Programmes and Policies ................................................... 034-035 Queer Studies ..................................................................... 036-051 Reproductive Technologies ................................................ 052-056 Trafficking .......................................................................... 057 Violence .............................................................................. 058 Women-Arts ....................................................................... 059-064 -Awards .................................................................... 065 -Conferences ............................................................ 066 -Credit ...................................................................... 067-069 -Development ........................................................... 070 -Disabilities .............................................................. 071 -Economic Development ......................................... 072-073 -Education ................................................................ 074-083 -Employment ............................................................ 084-098 -Empowerment ......................................................... 099-108 -Energy ..................................................................... 109 -Environment ........................................................... 110-120 -Gandhi ..................................................................... 121 -Health ...................................................................... 122-127 -Information Technology ......................................... 128-130 -Laws ........................................................................ 131-151 -Marriage .................................................................. 152-154 -Media ...................................................................... 155-157 -Migration ................................................................ 158-161 -Movements ............................................................. 162-179 -Muslims .................................................................. 180-181 -Organisations .......................................................... 182 -Politics .................................................................... 183-187 -Programmes and Policies ........................................ 188-190 -Rural........................................................................ 191 -Sports ...................................................................... 192-203 -Status ....................................................................... 204 -Tribes and Tribals ................................................... 205 -Violence .................................................................. 206 -Violence Against .................................................... 207-236 -Devadasis ...................................................... 237 -Foeticide ....................................................... 238-239 -Rape .............................................................. 240-243 -Sex Workers ................................................. 244-255 -Sexual Harassment ....................................... 256 -Water ....................................................................... 257-258 Women’s Rights ................................................................. 259-260 Section 2: Books/ Mimeo Papers/ Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops Reports Collected Works ................................................................. 001 Employment ....................................................................... 002-003 Feminist Theory ................................................................. 004 Fiction ................................................................................. 005-006 Men’s Studies ..................................................................... 007 Migration ............................................................................ 008 Sexuality ............................................................................. 009 Widows ............................................................................... 010 Women-Biographies ........................................................... 011 -Employment ............................................................ 012-015 -Health ...................................................................... 016 -History .................................................................... 017 -Literature ................................................................. 018-019 -Marriage .................................................................. 020 -Media ...................................................................... 021-022 -Movements ............................................................. 023-024 -Nationalism ............................................................. 025 -Panchayati Raj ........................................................ 026 -Scheduled Castes .................................................... 027 -Tribes and Tribals ................................................... 028 Women’s Studies ................................................................ 029 Annual Reports ................................................................... 030 List of Journals/ Newspapers Are Indexed in this Issue Antarang Sangini (Mumbai) Asian Age (New Delhi) Asian Women (Seoul, Korea) Contemporary Education Dialogue (New Delhi) Contributions to Indian Sociology (New Delhi) Deccan Herald (Bangalore) Development and Change (The Hague, The Netherlands) Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai) Frontline (Chennai) Gender and Development (Oxford, U.K.) Grassroots (Chennai) Hashiye ki Aawaz (New Delhi) Hindu (New Delhi) Hindustan Times (New Delhi) Hum Sabla (New Delhi) Indian Express (New Delhi) Indian Journal of Gender Studies (New Delhi) Journal of Social and Economic Development (Bangalore) Labour and Development (Noida, Uttar Pradesh) Legal News and Views (New Delhi) Mainstream (New Delhi) Saheli Newsletter (New Delhi) Sign: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Chicago, USA) Social Action (New Delhi) Social Welfare (New Delhi) Telegraph (Kolkata) Times of India (New Delhi) Women’s Link (New Delhi) Section – 1 Child Abuse 001 Haider, Faizan. FIR in Mehrauli child abuse case. Hindustan Times. 8 August; 2012. p.3. 002 Haider, Faizan. Police probe confirms abuse at Mehrauli children home. Hindustan Times. 7 August; 2012. p.2. Children 003 Ramesh Babu. Small is beautiful: Kerala's 'kutty' police strike it big. Hindustan Times. 25 July; 2012. p.10. 004 Shajan Perappadan, Bindu. Delhi the country's capital for crime against street children. Hindu. 6 August; 2012. p.2. 005 Shukla, Sachidanand. A class act in UP's Kutiyawa. Hindustan Times. 2 August; 2012. p.4. 006 Singla, Pamela. No wonder years. Indian Express . 18 August; 2012. p.14. Children’s Rights 007 Rozariyo-Chentrone, Mariya. Bharat mein baal adhikar. Hum Sabla . January-June 2012. p.5-7. Demography 008 Shahid Perwez; Jeffery, Roger and Jeffery, Patricia. Declining child sex-selection in India: a demographic epiphany. Economic and Political Weekly . 47(33) 18 August 2012. p.73-79. Education 009 Ahuja, Anupam. Don't disable her right to go to school. Hindu. 14 August; 2012. p.10. Employment 010 Kshetrimayum, Otojit. Rethinking cooperatives in rural development: a case study of handloom weavers' cooperatives in Manipur. Labour and Development . Vol. 18; June 2012. p.65-79. 011 A summer of discontent (Editorial). Hindustan Times. 25 July; 2012. p.12. Eunuch 012 Aher, Abhina. The journey from Abhijit to Abhina. Times of India(Crest) . 28 July; 2012. p.17. Family 013 De Alwis, Malathi. Girl still burning inside my head: reflections on suicide in Sri Lanka. Contributions to
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