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PubMed1987

Nilima Priyadarshini v. State of Bihar, 27 March 1987.

In this decision, the Supreme Court of India expressed its shock that an application from a women who complained of having been kept in illegal confinement against her wishes received in the Registry on 15 January 1987 was not placed before the Court until two and a half months later. In addition to ruling that the complainant should be immediately taken before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, it directed that the matter be placed before the Chief Justice for taking suitable action against the officials responsible and for considering whether machinery should be devised to prevent such delays.

Asia↗
PubMed1987

Regulations, 30 January 1987.

Regulations adopted by the All-Union Women's Committee give recently established women's councils greater scope to initiate legislation and provide that laws and statutory instruments affecting women's interests cannot be discussed without their participation. The Councils are also to play an active role in representing the interests of the female workforce at the enterprise level through participation in formulating and monitoring collective agreements, planning the allocation of resources on the social and day-to-day needs of the staff, and supervising the work of medical, pre-school and educational institutions, commercial and public catering enterprises, and day-to-day services.

Developed Countries↗
PubMed1987

Establishment of Parliamentary Council on Population and Development, June 1987.

The Government of Liberia has established a Parliamentary Council on Population and Development which is to have the following duties: a) to work to enact a national population policy; b) to mobilize effective financial support for population policy and programs; c) to encourage evaluation and implementation of policies to promote population and family and sex education in and out of school; d) to improve child health and survival; and e) to spearhead population awareness campaigns. The Council is also to "initiate legislation in support of policies that will help improve the status of women by ensuring the provision of increased education strategies, equal opportunities in employment and education, family planning, including natural family planning, elimination of cultural practices and beliefs which discriminate against women, and birth spacing that will enable spouses or couples to have the pregnancies they want and when they want them, confident that they can adequately take care of their offspring and enrich their quality of life from infancy to maturity, as well as ensuring health of mothers."

Africa↗