single mother

In order to make ends meet, she worked six jobs in a day as a domestic help so she could educate her daughter.

She worked as domestic help, a construction worker, a sweeper and took on every other odd job she could find to ensure her children had the best education and life.

Courage can take many forms. Leaving your home with your young children in search for a better life, and to escape the clutches of domestic violence, takes a special kind of courage, that Nirmala exemplifies.

The story of 10-year-old Mohammad, a resident of Mumbai who has not been able to get his passport, gives a glimpse of the troubles single mothers have to face.

The year 2015 has been marked by some precedent-setting legal judgements, particularly those that enforce the constitutional rights of women and girls as individuals, wives, single mothers and survivors of sexual crimes. Here are some of those judgements.