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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Climate change is not gender neutral
Integrating gender into climate change policy at the local, national and international levels is of paramount importance. Here Lucia Kiwala, Chief of UN-HABITAT
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Sparing lives: better reproductive health for poor women in South Asia
This report highlights that the region faces enormous challenges in addressing inequalities in reproductive health of poor women, and focuses on the risks they face. This phenomenon perpetuates an inter-generational cycle of poverty.
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Women: Catalysts in the process of change
Change is not something that happens automatically. Our collective effort is what acts as a catalyst in the process of change, said Sharda Devi, President of Samagra Jal Vikas Samiti of Pipra. Earlier, women of this village had to walk 2 to 3 kilometers to collect water, spending most of their time in this pursuit. The situation is vastly different now.
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Women and water in Bundelkhand
For most of the year, the residents of Bundelkhand experience acute scarcity of water for agricultural and domestic use. Water sources are varied and often seasonal, ranging from ponds, tanks, lakes and streams to open wells, bore wells and irrigation canals radiating out from large-scale dams. Most agriculture is of the single-crop variety and rain fed, with supplementary water from open wells.
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Proximity to traffic: Inflammation, and immune function among women in the Seattle, Washington, area
Traffic-related air pollution has been associated with adverse health outcomes, and the immune system may be a biologic mediator of health effects. We analyzed associations between living near major roads and immune status as measured
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Peoples health manifesto - 2009
This health manifesto targeted at the political parties ahead of elections demands for effective measures to achieve the achieve the right to health, which includes the right not only to timely appropriate quality health care but also to the underlying socio economic and environmental determinants of health.
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Integrated solutions to the water, agriculture and climate crises
The dramatic convergence of multiple crises
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Mothers little helper
Creches at construction sites lend a hand to migrant women workers Lakshmi, 22-year-old construction worker from Chhattisgarh, gave birth to the youngest of her three children in December 2008 through caesarian section. She had to resume work within five days to pay off the loan she took to meet her medical expenses. In normal circumstances she would have taken her infant son to the
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Victims of war crime
Breaking one of his country
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Science & Technology - Briefs
chemical sciences Sugars preserve organs longer Growth of ice crystals during organ preservation at low temperatures leaves them unfit for transplantation. Several carbohydrates have the ability to prevent the growth of ice crystals. This ability correlates with the hydration number which is the number of water molecules bound to one carbohydrate molecule. A team of scientists