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
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Climate change and gender justice
This book considers how gender issues are entwined with people
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State of world population 2009: facing a changing world - women, population and climate
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA.
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In widow village, they die for Rs 200 a day
NARAYAN BARETH Sriji Ka Kheda is now practically a village of widows. Falling under Bhilwara district, the village has 60 houses and 70 widows. Most of their husbands lost their lives working as labour in quarries and dying of silicosis. "It is a very sad story. Most of the widows are under 40," said Bhanwar Bairwa of Salja panchayat.
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Womens power
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has turned out to be a
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Women workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which entitles rural households to 100 days of casual employment on public works at the statutory minimum wage, contains special provisions to ensure full participation of women. This paper, based on fieldwork in six states in 2008, examines the socio-economic consequences of the nrega for women workers.
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New age challenge for women
Without doubt, climate change will affect us all but the most vulnerable are women who could actually play a large role in curbing the effects of climate change. Yet they remain invisible in any decision-making effort. In every society women and men have gender roles but with climate change the gender inequality is magnified.
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New age challenge for women
With each UNFCCC meeting, one is apprised of the galloping pace at which climate change is affecting the planet. Extremes of weather and natural disasters have become commonplace, with devastating floods in Africa and Asia, extreme cold or heat waves in Europe and the spectre of hurricanes in the Americas.
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Local warming
For most women in Punjab, dinnertime means heading to the kitchen to begin making chapatis. But things have changed in Fazilka. At dinnertime, they dress up just that little bit and are out of their homes with kneaded flour as they head for the neighbourhood chulha. Here, they bake their bread even as they talk and gossip before going back home with hot chapatis.
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NREGA not benefiting single women: Activists
Even as the central government is giving impetus to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by renaming it the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, single women feel that the scheme is not benefiting them. The point came out today during a discussion here on the occasion of the launch of the National Forum for Single Women
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Reservation for women in Panchayats: A sop in disguise?
The decision by the union cabinet to raise reservation for women from one-third to 50% of seats at all three levels of panchayats is a welcome one. However, this decision was taken without addressing the problems caused by mandatory rotation of reserved seats, which women have been drawing attention to and the impasse over the Women