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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Human development index Rajasthan
This book presents the spatio-temporal and gender appraisal Human Development Index (HDI) of all the 237 Panchayat Samitis of Rajasthan. Interpreting spatial distribution pattern of HD at Panchayat Samiti Level, it provides temporal appraisal of HDI in two points of time: 1991 and 2001. It also presents gender appraisal of HDI, education index, income index, growth trends and plan of action.
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Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector
The objective of this report is to monitor global progress in the health sector as it scales up HIV prevention, treatment and care interventions towards universal access . The current report is the second in a series of annual progress reports developed by the WHO, the joint UNAIDS and the UNICEF in partnership with other international monitoring and reporting mechanisms to monitor the response of the health sector to HIV. This report includes a focus on women and children.
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Feisty warrior
The struggle against mining giants in Orissa got a shot in the arm after Mukta Jhodia, a campaigner against the Hindalco-led Utkal Alumina's bauxite mining project in Kashipur won the first Chingari
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Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the first Farmer Field Schools were organised in the early 1990s, assisted by the FAO inter-country programme for IPM in rice. After initial positive experiences, several other donors (UNDP, CARE-Bangladesh and DANIDA) started projects to spread IPM to hundreds of thousands of farmers through IPM Farmer Field Schools. All these projects included season-long Training of Trainers courses to develop skilled FFS facilitators. Through this continuous support over the past ten
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Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder
Some 15 years ago, pine-covered hillsides were the typical images of Karsog in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district. But pine provided little fodder for cattle. People in its villages preferred
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Costly vaccine to pre empt cervical cancer may not find takers
Pharmaceutical giants Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have developed two vaccines that they promise will eradicate cervical cancer. Soon after the companies announced their products in mid-2006, public
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Cities as spaces of culture, constraints
Exhibition>> Global Cities, Tate Modern
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At high risk
In India, cervical cancer kills around 80,000 women each year and 120,000 new cases emerge. This is in stark contrast to the US, for example, where only 4,000 women die annually from the disease. The
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Sex ratio gap on a constant high
census data attributes the falling sex ratio in India to the use of ultrasound tests. But three factors
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Grassroots NGOs by women for women
Book>> Grassroots ngos by Women for Women