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
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Women's tales
THIS documentary tries to bring out the individuality and identity of each woman: Mitkibai, Gorabai, Kamakshi and Sarladi as the four peasant women, representing different regions ofthe
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"Every ninth baby here suffers brain damage"
A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed at providing succour to the teeming massess In the disease afflicted areas of the Aral Sea basin. Starting with being an obstetrician and gyn
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On Eve's of footsteps
The Beijing Conference on Women was a revelation of the 20th Century woman's status vis a vis environment and other issues
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Killer on the tral
Migrating to another country may lower or raise chances of contracting breast cancer, reveals a new study
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Thorny issue
Leaves and thorns, a feature film by K P Sasi, will be premiered on Doordarshan on October 1, 1995. The film highlights the unequal status of women in a society. It takes off from a
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The battle of the sexes
Women of the Onge tribe of hunter gatherers defend their age old culture against assault from the mainlanders
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Hail Marie
Polish-born Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize. She is perhaps the also the first woman scientist whose life Hollywood thought eventful enough to make a film on. She was
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Tobacco trouble
A study conducted by a UK research group revealed that among women dying due to tobacco intake the world over, Scottish women figure on the top of the list. This is 2/3rds more than in the
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Engendering global development
DESPITE all efforts to marginalise the chasm between the genders, the Human Development Report (hdr), 1995, has documented gender disparities still existing in the world. Prepared against the
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Fencing in territory, fencing out inequality...
... the Adivasi woman is no longer a silent observer of the issues bothering her for ages