Health of Tribal Women in India- Need For a Progressive Vision

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210506.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender discrimination, health, indigenous people, tribal women

Abstract

India, a country known for its tradition and ancient practices, always respects women. Due to technological development, maintaining such tradition in all aspects is a challenge. Technological development has always influenced society and contributed to its welfare. Many social evils like sati, the status of widows, and chila marriage impacted society, especially, few kinds of violence against women had been wiped-out by effective legislations. Gender discrimination endures in all countries despite its economic status. Centuries ago the society was civilized, and people are well educated. When it comes to the status of women, gender-based discrimination exists. The tribal women, compared to other Indian women, are decades behind. These tribal women encounter two important issues, discrimination based on gender few traditional practices that are dangerous for their health. India had enacted progressive legislations like The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 but the question is how far this Act has the potential to provide opportunities to tribal women is unanswered. The Constitution of India provides certain protection to Tribes, but the protection and progress of tribal women are always in question. The government contends that the policies and schemes are provided for the growth and development of tribal women, but the societal certitudes do not permit the growth of tribal women. Internationally, the right to health is also assured in human rights treaties which State parties adopt and the principles are executed in their respective domestic laws. In this way, the States are obligated to provide the right to health as a basic right that is provided without any kind of discrimination, and if violated, the states are accountable before the law. The purpose of the study is to focus on the health conditions of tribal women in India. In addition to this, the obligation of States under international law regarding the protection of health under the right to health of tribal (indigenous) women has been discussed. The landmark judgments have been cited in order to focus on the existing health conditions of tribal women.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - E. Prema
AU  - V. Shyam Sundar
AU  - P.R.L. Raja Venkatesan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/08
TI  - Health of Tribal Women in India- Need For a Progressive Vision
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2020 (ICLHR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 85
EP  - 90
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210506.013
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