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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Mother-child mortality rates in steady decline
Common cold, skin infections, diarrhoea and skin disorders were the main cause of health problems for children under five years old in Bhutan, according to the annual health bulletin 2008. Last year 54,781 cases of common cold, 22,472 cases of diarrhoea, and 23,817 cases of skin infections were recorded across the country. Of the 13,851 children born last year, 61 were stillbirths and foetal death, followed by 98 neonatal deaths. Ten children were born with STD.
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Sarpanch of a panchayat with zero crime'
From Jodhpur, Savita Rathi was married into a family in Gopalpura village in Churu district, Rajasthan. She became sarpanch of Gopalpura gram panchayat by winning the 2005 elections, defeating her male rival by 600 votes in the general category. She spoke to Narayani Ganesh on the sidelines of a meeting on Panchayati Raj institutions organised by the Indian Women's Press Corps in the capital recently: You are a qualified lawyer. Is that an advantage?
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Bio initiatives by women in Zambia
Groups of women in Zambia started providing energy services like battery charging, irrigation, milling and welding, to the community by using a replacing diesel with jatropha oil that they produce themselves.
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Woman panchayat president sets tsunami hit village on development path
Success story of a young panchayat president who took innovative measures to re-build her tsunami-devastated village.
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Women and wildlife conservation - A case study in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary
This case study is a review of socio-economic structure of the people, their loss and benefit out of sanctuaries, concept of WTP (willingness to pay) and finally attitude towards conservation. Details salient features of a recommended female oriented economic development programme and says that this is certain to have long lasting effect on the general attitude towards wildlife conservation.
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Raised bed farming - Reviving traditional technology
In order to address some issues faced by small farm holders, Agrarian Development Institute for Sustenance and Improved Livelihood (ADISIL), a Madurai based NGO, with the support of Svaraj, has revived an innovative, traditional technology, i.e. raised bed farming. Raised bed farming is the practice of using complex terraces of elevated earth to grow vegetables, it is done simply by forming a bed of topsoil that lies about 6 inches to 10 inches above the rest of the ground. Generally this bed is 3 feet wide and 8 feet to 10 feet in length.
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Gender and equity issues in liquid biofuels production
The production of liquid biofuels is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This results in potential socio-economic benefits, particularly in terms of agricultural employment, as well as risks,which tend to be context-specific.
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Gender and socio-cultural determinants of TB-related stigma in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Colombia
<p>The objective of the study was to assess indicators of TB-related stigma and socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness associated with stigma.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/journal-supplements/tb-related-stigma/en/"
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Impact of Khana's Vachan on traditional agriculture in Bengal
Khana, a woman seer and a composer of nature verses lived between 800 and 1200 AD. Her contribution to traditional agriculture of Bengal, India is amazing. Her verses were the most important guidelines for traditional agriculture and in villages, farmers are still following several verses along with present-day modern agricultural practices.
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Ensure access to land, forest resources for women, indigenous people
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury and Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Raja Devasish Roy at a workshop yesterday called for ensuring access to land, water and forest resources for the poor, women and indigenous people. Raja Devasish Roy stressed the need for amending the 1927 Forest Act and called for bringing reforms in the court system so that poor and indigenous people get their access to justice.