World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
This research aims to foster discourse about the extent to which gender is important to consider within the context of participatory approaches for biological conservation. Our objectives are to: (1) gender-disaggregate
Political representation is a necessary condition for a liberal democracy. Political quotas are meant to address the absence of those who are excluded because of the inegalitarian social structures in
Children living in urban India are equally vulnerable to poverty as their rural counterparts. A new Indian specific statistics presented at the launch of the Unicef’s flagship publication, Children in an Urban World, shows that the child poverty indicators are equally worse in the cases of both the rural and the urban poor populations. After the launch of the Unicef report that highlights the state of the world’s children, Unicef India representative Karin Hulshof asserted the need to put children at the heart of urban planning.
43% Of Kids Under 5 Yrs Malnourished, Finds Unicef Study New Delhi: Modern India continues to be plagued by social and health ills like child marriage, early motherhood and domestic violence. Latest data
One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring local water security under rapid climate variability and change. This is of particular importance in a country like India, where over
The majority of the world’s population now live in urban centres, which will also absorb virtually all population growth in the next century. Urbanisation involves major shifts in the ways people work
This publication presents a visual synthesis of the major trends and factors shaping the global food and agricultural landscape and their interplay with broader environmental, social and economic dimensions.
This paper examines the performance thus far of MGNREGS in meeting the demand for work across states. It focuses in the scheme‘s ability to reach India‘s rural poor and other identity-based groups, notably backward castes, tribes and takes a closer look at women‘s participation and how this is influenced by the rationing of work under MGNREGS.
Both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security, and their respective roles and responsibilities need to be well understood to ensure that men and women benefit equally from climate-smart
Gender Dimensions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: A Rapid Assessment Toolkit was commissioned under the World Bank’s Gender and Extractive Industries program as an easy-to-use toolkit for assessing