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
Women
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Fisheries and livelihoods in Tungabhadra basin, India: current status and future possibilities
Management of water resources is crucial for supporting livelihoods, particularly marginal communities. The study aims at understanding the livelihood patterns of fishermen within the Tungabhadra sub basin, a tributary of river Krishna located in peninsular India. Household surveys, focus group discussions and interviews were carried out in order to understand the
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Women still affected even 25 yrs after gas disaster
Kumar Shakti Shekhar | Bhopal
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Problem pill
There was never a doubt that the i-pill and other emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) would prove to be immensely popular among women in India when they were introduced two years ago. That's because India records 11 million abortions annually and a shocking 20,000 women die because of abortion-related complications.
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Women bear brunt of climate change
In dry fields and flooded villages, women are the worst off, forced to walk farther for water, giving up their food to feed kids
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Unicef: 5,000 Indian kids under 5 die daily
Around 5,000 children under the age of five die in India every day, according to a latest Unicef report. With malnutrition rates continuing to be high, 96 per cent of children who die belong to the scheduled tribes, 88 per cent to scheduled castes and 59 to general population.
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Family planning can influence adaptation of rising sea: UNFPA
Mumbai: Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts.
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World Population Report-2009 released
United National Population Fund released its State of World Population Report-2009 at a grand programme held on Thursday at Hotel Palash, TT Nagar. The report of this year has been focused on "facing a changing world women, population and climate".
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Turning waste into wealth
How a waste recycling project in Kerala has helped to transform the community around it is an amazing story, to say the least. It is the story which has the potential to be replicated across India.
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Linking climate change policies to human development analysis and advocacy
This guidance note has been prepared in response to the growing demand for guidelines to support the work of human development report teams and partners in integrating human development analysis and advocacy into more equitable, sustainable and climateresilient development planning and policy debates.
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Celebrating 20 years of the convention on the rights of the child
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18.