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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Jeevika 2003: About common people
What do people do when their livelihoods are threatened? How do they deal with a world that pushes them to the margins? Such issues were raised by nine documentaries at Jeevika 2003
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Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi
Throughout the 1860s a frail young European woman with a medicine chest was a conspicuous presence at the women s ghats of the river Yamuna in Delhi. This was Priscilla Winter, an Anglican missionary who...
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The girl in Sierra Leone
Health gap widens between the poorest and the rest
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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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Punjab human development report 2004
Punjab is at a more advanced stage of development than most other Indian states. However, the remarkable achievements of the state have not been equitable. Amidst prosperity, pockets of deprivation remain among sections and areas.
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Shooting up
Cancer in violence torn J&K
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Book notice: Hope in sight
<i>Improving People s Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia</i>, edited by Mukul Sharma
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Documentary review: Swaraj, the Little Republic
It is a well established practice for non governmental organisations ngos to produce documentary films/videos. Over the last few years, some ngos have departed from the norm to produce short 20/30/60 seconds social advertisements, popularly known as p
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MALAR miracle
From literacy to economic independence
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Conflict in Paradise: Women and Protected Areas in the Indian Himalayas
The unique assemblages of flora and fauna in the Himalayan region make it one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the Indian subcontinent. Seventy-five protected areas (PAs) encompassing 9.48% of the region have been created to conserve this biodiversity and the fragile Himalayan landscape.