Kumar Shakti Shekhar | Bhopal

There was never a doubt that the i-pill and other emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) would prove to be immensely popular among women in India when they were introduced two years ago. That's because India records 11 million abortions annually and a shocking 20,000 women die because of abortion-related complications.

In dry fields and flooded villages, women are the worst off, forced to walk farther for water, giving up their food to feed kids

Around 5,000 children under the age of five die in India every day, according to a latest Unicef report. With malnutrition rates continuing to be high, 96 per cent of children who die belong to the scheduled tribes, 88 per cent to scheduled castes and 59 to general population.

Mumbai: Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts.

United National Population Fund released its State of World Population Report-2009 at a grand programme held on Thursday at Hotel Palash, TT Nagar. The report of this year has been focused on "facing a changing world women, population and climate".