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• 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

  • 07/05/2024

  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • • Migration
    • Displacement
    • Climate Change
    • Food Security
    • Women
    • India
    • Global

• Junky baby

  Babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy have the same nicotine levels as adult smokers and almost certainly spend their first days of life going through withdrawal symptoms. This study done

  • 30/05/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women
    • Child Health
    • Smoking

• Predicting miscarriage

  Until now pregnant women were under the misconception that if they had morning sickness, they were less prone to a miscarriage. Kathleen O'Conner of Pennsylvania State University, University Park,

  • 30/05/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women
    • Maternal Health
    • Bangladesh
    • United States Of America (US)

• Taken for granted

  The sathins (village-level female social workers) have been in the forefront of the Women's Development Programme (WDP) in the rural areas of Rajasthan. However, their commitment and success have

  • 29/04/1997

  • • Women
    • Conflicts
    • Rural Development
    • Rajasthan
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  Water weary

  <I>Women in Gujarat spend inordinate time procuring their daily requirement of water</I>

  • 14/04/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Drinking Water Scarcity
    • Women
    • Gujarat

• Honey, don't cry

  Women in Turkey, Chile and the US are among the world's most frequent criers, and men from Spain, Peru and Bulgaria cry the least, according to a study done by psychologists from the

  • 30/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women

• Gaining strength from struggle

  PRESENTING a story set in a not very captivating environment and yet command- ing the attention of the audience, the film portrays the trials and tribulations of the women of Kotra village,

  • 14/03/1997

  • • Women
    • Rajasthan

• Shaky bones

  David Michelson and his team from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, US , have found that clinical depression in women can lead to broken bones. They measured the bone-mineral

  • 14/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women
    • Medical Research
    • United States Of America (US)

• DISEASE DETAILS

  According to a recent report, about 25,000 workers in the bidi, zarda and gul factories in the northern part of Bangladesh are suffering from several diseases including tuberculosis and

  • 14/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health Effects
    • Women
    • Children
    • Bangladesh

• Gaining ground

  Massagers are now increasingly becoming popular with teenage students and young adults, especially women office workers. These light, compact units developed recently in Japan, for softening up stiff

  • 14/02/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women
    • Health Care

• WRONG CONNECTIONS

  Manufacturers of silicone breast implants were vindicated recently when a us court ruled that evidences suggesting a link between silicone implants and some of the illnesses they have been

  • 30/01/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Women
    • Compensation
    • Legislation
    • United States Of America (US)