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The WIP Contributors: HIV/AIDS in India: New Theories Versus the AIDS Lobby - 0 views

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    Pleads that ARV therapy is not the solution, rather a healthy style of living should do the trick in India.
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The WIP Contributors: Martial Arts Training Helps Indian Women Regain Their Self-Respect - 0 views

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  • The number of women raped every day has risen to 53 – a nearly 700 percent increase since 1971. India ranked fifth out of 84 countries studied by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in 2006, with 19,000 reported rapes per year.
  • Some women’s groups in India say that fewer than 2 percent of women who have been sexually assaulted in India actually come forward to report the crime, largely because this could undermine a woman’s chances at marriage.
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The WIP Contributors: Indian Couples Seek Security in Modern Marriages - 0 views

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India sex education marriage

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  • Unlike in more developed countries, sex education is not part of the school curriculum in India. In fact, as of late 2007, 12 out of India’s 29 state governments had banned sex education claiming the course material led to sexual experimentation among students and was against the Indian culture.
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China launches sex education campaign-China-World-The Times of India - 0 views

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  • China launched a national sex education campaign on Sunday in order to break traditional taboos and encourage people suffering from A couple at a kissing contest in Hefei, central China. (Agencies Photo) sexually transmitted diseases and infertility to seek medical help.
  • The new campaign for safe sex has been named as "The sunshine project to care for gender health". It involves use of posters and holding competitions besides sponsoring an international sex toy fair in Beijing, organisers said. The idea is to get people to discuss “painful topics" concerning their sexual life. The government recently intensified a television campaign to promote condom use, which is significant in a country where talking about sex is problematic for many people.
  • Officials bemoaned the fact that more than one-third of those suffering from sex related problems never seek medical help. Only seven percent of women and slightly more than eight percent of men seek immediate medical help for sexual problems while a lot of others take a lot of time before deciding to visit hospitals
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South Korea, Where Boys Were Kings, Revalues Its Girls - New York Times - 0 views

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  • According to a study released by the World Bank in October, South Korea is the first of several Asian countries with large sex imbalances at birth to reverse the trend, moving toward greater parity between the sexes. Last year, the ratio was 107.4 boys born for every 100 girls, still above what is considered normal, but down from a peak of 116.5 boys born for every 100 girls in 1990.
  • The most important factor in changing attitudes toward girls was the radical shift in the country’s economy that opened the doors to women in the work force as never before and dismantled long-held traditions, which so devalued daughters that mothers would often apologize for giving birth to a girl.
  • The government also played a small role starting in the 1970s. After growing alarmed by the rise in sex-preference abortions, leaders mounted campaigns to change people’s attitudes, including one that featured the popular slogan “One daughter raised well is worth 10 sons!”
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  • In 1987, the government banned doctors from revealing the sex of a fetus before birth. But experts say enforcement was lax because officials feared too many doctors would be caught.
  • In China in 2005, the ratio was 120 boys born for every 100 girls, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Vietnam reported a ratio of 110 boys to 100 girls last year. And although India recorded about 108 boys for every 100 girls in 2001
  • The Population Fund warned in an October report that the rampant tinkering with nature’s probabilities in Asia could eventually lead to increased sexual violence and trafficking of women as a generation of boys finds marriage prospects severely limited
  • “When I first joined the company in 1995, a woman was expected to quit her job once she got married; we called it a ‘resignation on a company suggestion,’” she said. Now, she said, many women stay after marriage and take a three-month break after giving birth before returning to work. “If someone suggests that a woman should quit after marriage, female workers in my company will take it as an insult and say so,” Ms. Shin said.
  • In 1990, the law guaranteeing men their family’s inheritance — a cornerstone of the Confucian system — was the first of the so-called family laws to fall; the rest would be dismantled over the next 15 years.
  • And last year, a study by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs showed that of 5,400 married South Korean women younger than 45 who were surveyed, only 10 percent said they felt that they must have a son. That was down from 40 percent in 1991.
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