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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CAMPAIGN
It was a unique way of celebrating Women's Day. Women in the Uttarakhand region of Uttar Pradesh dedicated March 8, 1999, to "Save the Forests'. Chanting slogans such as " jungle bachyega, desh
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Treating cervical cancer
Radiation therapy and chemotherapy can halve cervical cancer deaths among women
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No longer barren
the barren lands in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh are slowly becoming green. Thanks to efforts by the women who have struggled to regenerate the region. "Three years ago not even a
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Tying a green knot
In a small town in Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh, a marriage is also a tree planting occasion
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Cities, sewers and poverty: India's politics of sanitation
This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with
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Women at work
Women spend much more time working than men in virtually every society for which time use studies are available, according to the United Nations Human Development Report, 1998. This includes both
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UNITED NATIONS
According to United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) official, David Morton, the continuing famine in North Korea is comparable to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s. He said large-scale
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Silk route to success
With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis
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A Green ban
Kanchanpur has some unusual people: drunk men and green women. Ignored and uncared for by the men, the region s lands were barren. Then, the women decided it was time for a change...
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Hard work pays
Hard manual labour may actually reduce the risk of breast cancer in women