Shireen Jejeebhoy

Shireen Jejeebhoy

Shireen Jejeebhoy is a social scientist and demographer. She is director, Aksha Centre for Equity and Wellbeing, a visiting distinguished faculty at International Institute for Population Sciences, and president, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Paris.

India’s Demographic Dividend: Going, Going, Gone

Poor learning outcomes, limited employment skills and the continued exclusion of girls and women from the development process stand in the way of India reaping the demographic dividend. We need…
▶04-Sep-2024
Shireen Jejeebhoy, Sanjay Kumar

Supreme Court’s Expansion of Abortion Rights

The recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights is a significant one for it looks at the law through the lens of women’s rights and autonomy, and expands access to services for medical termination…
▶31-Oct-2022
Vinoj Manning, Anisha Aggarwal, Shireen Jejeebhoy

Abortions in India: Myths, Facts and Reality

India’s recently amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act is quite progressive on paper but its translation into practice makes abortion as inaccessible in the country as in many of the most…
▶31-Aug-2022
Shireen Jejeebhoy, Vinoj Manning

Child Marriages During the Pandemic

The worsening of poverty during the pandemic may well have led to a worrying spurt in marriages of girl children in India. The information available indicates that has happened, pushing back the…
▶14-Jun-2021
Shireen Jejeebhoy