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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Icy sweat shops
A STUDY conducted by Shobhana Warrier, a professor at the Jamia Millia Isalmia, Delhi, notes that the workers in fish processing units are often made to work under pathetic conditions and live in
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After Chipko: from environment to region in Uttaranchal
<p>Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South.
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"Women know how to manage better"
SMITA GHATE was assistant collector in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar District from January 1997 to January 1998. She was transferred for taking a proactive stand on the participation of women in rural development programmes. She was also actively involved in the
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Panchayats Working women
Slowly but steadly, women elected to panchayats are asserting themselves and, in the process, giving a new thrust to grassroot governance
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GHANA
Unsafe abortions are primary killers of women between the ages of 14 and 44 in Ghana. Poverty and ignorance among people allows quacks to have a flourishing business. According to the health
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Fly low
Female flight attendants run a higher risk of getting breast cancer. This could be due to the effects of jet lag on melanin, a hormone, the level of which is up to 10 times higher levels in the blood
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BRAZIL
Teenagers in Brazil gave birth to a staggering 900,000 babies in 1997, thus accounting for 26.5 per cent of all live births in the country. According to the ministry of health, girls between the age
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Cause for concern
BABIES born to mothers who live near hazardous waste landfill sites have a higher risk of serious birth defects, warns a European report. Women living within three-kilometre of a hazardous landfill
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Highs and lows
Science now has a way to prevent premenstrual syndrome
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Doesn't gel
DOW CORNING, the US silicon products manufacturer, has agreed to a US $3.2 billion deal, ending the long-running US battle over breast implant litigation. The company will pay the amount to