The Government of India had set up a High Level Committee on Status of Women in 2012 to undertake comprehensive study to understand the status of women since 1989 as well as to evolve appropriate policy intervention based on a contemporary assessment of women's needs. The HLC shall perform sveral functions including identifying social attitude towards women and changes therein, discrimination as reflected in declining sex ratio in different age groups, age at marriage, involvement in decision making and changes in the extent and nature of violence and abuse of women, both within and outside the house and other forms of discrimination on account of customary practices.

Government of India, National review on Beijing +20, 2015, pages 7-8.

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