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Welcome to the World Bank's new blog on governance and anti-corruption (GAC). Governance for Development aims to provide a forum among World Bank Group staff and the wider development community engaged in the governance endeavor for debate, reflection and experience-sharing on the implications of GAC-mainstreaming for development work.
The Governance & Anticorruption Knowledge and Learning Portal is the primary destination for GAC-related knowledge-sharing and learning at the World Bank Group.
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In 2010, the Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling on the right of poor women to access maternity benefit schemes. The case involved Fatema, a woman suffering epilepsy, who went into labor in May, 2009. Although Fatema’s mother went to the hospital to request an ambulance and assistance, as the baby girl was also suffering an epileptic seizure, she was turned away.