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
-
UNITED NATIONS
A 41-page critical study by 2 independent inspec- tors says that UN development agencies have bungled science and technology (5& T) projects in Africa. Evaluating 16 projects, the inspectors argue
-
Histrionics from hysteria
Rising above their despair, oppressed and abandoned women have taken to street-theatre, staging shows in the slums of Hyderabad. Under the guidance of Puran Chandra Rao, writer-director of the play
-
UNITED NATIONS
If a non-nuclear nation is bullied by a nuclear weapon state, global help will be rushed to it, was the assurance of the UN Security Council which - adopted a resolution pledging help for
-
Fishing fortunes
A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women
-
Till joys
Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze for the first time
-
Grounded fantasy
BECKY Sidebottom, a Yorkshire woman with "immortal longings" goes to a fantasy country, Lapalistan, where she encounters Desi Khunbarrah, the most sexually magnetic man she has ever met. Rana's
-
Mainstreaming women
Women can get sterilised, but men will get the land. The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to reward sterilisation volunteers with a patta (DEED) for land has resulted in women going in for
-
All bark, all bite
Local communities in Nepal and some Central American nations have become invaluable participants in managing their forests
-
Environment's gender bias
THIS state-of-the-art report on women and sustainable development, supported by INSTRAW (United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women) is an outcome of
-
Male underdevelopment
FOR both the poor and the rich, life is full of choices; but whereas for the rich, choosing is mostly synonymous with freedom and happy expectancy, the poor must always choose between one kind of