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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'Women most vulnerable to climate change'
Women, the primary caregiver in family, are the most vulnerable group to climate change, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday.
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Centre launches new scheme for girl child
The government on Monday launched
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Combating displacement
THE last couple of decades have witnessed intense resistance movements challenging large-scale displacement caused, among others, by mines, dams, national parks and sanctuaries, bomb and missile-testing ranges, industry and urban expansion.
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The livelihood crisis for women
As we approach another March 8 in this 60th year of India
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Irrigation management transfer: strategies and best practices
This book is a synthesis of strategies and best practices adopted by various countries in irrigation management transfer. It identifies key concerns such as water user associations' structure and functions, financial mobilization and constraints, repair and maintenance of physical structures, operation of canal systems, capacity building and monitoring mechanisms. It also identifies enabling environments, including regulatory mechanisms, and the role of non-governmental organizations. It is largely based on secondary sources, with references to experiences across the world.
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Gendering the National Rehabilitation Policy of India
Development-induced displacement and its impact on the social, cultural and economic lives of the affected people is a huge discourse in contemporary India. Dislocation due to displacement has an irreversible impact on the lives of those displaced. Review of the existing literature shows that impacts are more severe on the most vulnerable groups such as the landless, tribals, women and children.
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Re-energizing for dignity and prosperity
The 4th International General Assembly of the World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP) was held at Negombo, Sri Lanka. The Assembly delegates recognized that all peoples in historically traditional fishing communities had a right to basic human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which included basic socioeconomic rights.
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Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty in India
Poverty is deepest among scheduled castes and tribes in the country
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Building humanity: Breaking barriers overcoming social exclusion
"Why do those people need toilets?
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Asthama's female bias
it is believed that women who grow up on farms have a strong immunity and face a lower risk of allergies than those who don't grow up on farms. A study has found that farm women may be at a