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By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - India's disaster relief agency suffers from "critical gaps" in its preparedness for calamities, making it largely ineffective when responding to the numerous disasters the country faces such as floods and ...

NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - Indian groups working to alleviate poverty are unprepared for new financial disclosure rules that will apply to companies extracting oil, gas and minerals from 2014, posing a challenge for campaigners who see transparency as a ...

NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - Delhi police who allegedly delayed the search for a 5-year-old girl after she was abducted, raped and tortured in the capital must be arrested and charged with dereliction of duty under the country's new anti-rape law, women's rights ...

NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - The main architect of India's new anti-rape law died late on Monday, leaving a legacy of tougher punishments for sex crimes, the creation of new offences under the law, and measures to make the police more accountable when responding to ...

NEW DELHI, April 17 (TrustLaw) - The United Nations is sending its special envoy to India to investigate the rising cases of violence against women, four months after the fatal gang rape of a student sparked public outrage over the treatment of ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, (TrustLaw) - A minister in Kerala has resigned following allegations by his wife that he had physically abused her for over a decade.

LONDON (TrustLaw) Donors at a global London summit raised $2.6 billion to provide 120 million more women and girls in the developing world access to voluntary family planning services by 2020. The amount, pledged by leaders from donor countries, ...

NEW YORK (TrustLaw) - In Ghana, taxi drivers consider it a bad omen if a woman delivers a baby in their car. As a result, women in labour often find it difficult to get to hospital to give birth. At the same time, Ghanaian women, particularly those ...

WASHINGTON (TrustLaw) Anna Bossman is anxious. Eighteen months into her job as Integrity and Anti-Corruption Director at the African Development Bank, her revamped investigations team has uncovered alleged corruption at a major international ...