Extracts from India: A Status Paper

Regional Preparatory Conference for the World

Conference of the UN Decade for Women

November 5–9, 1979

Ministry of Social Welfare

Government of India

Review and Appraisal of Progress made in attaining the Objectives of the U.N. Decade for Women

Both Houses of Indian Parliament passed resolutions in 1975 urging upon the Prime Minister “to initiate a comprehensive programme of specific legislative and administrative measures aimed at removing, as far as possible, the economic and social injustices, disabilities and discriminations to which Indian women continue to be subjected.”

A National Plan of Action for women, based on the guidelines contained in the World Plan of Action, the recommendations of the Mexico ...

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