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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Ropeways of solidarity
The women of Kangra in Himachal Pradesh have crossed the bridge to freedom that comes from collective action
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The niece's tale
Development can spawn curious offspring. The prospect of involving rural women in a refresher course on the importance of maintaining vegetable gardens surely qualifies as one of these. And that's
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Women and capitalism
FEMINIST writing normally falls into one of 2 categories: either it is completely simplistic rabblerousing targeted at the lowest common denominator, or it is jargon-ridden academic work that
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Leaving the women in the woods
Forest protection initiatives taken by villagers, though laudable by themselves, have proved to be a bane for women
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Questions of gender
Women's groups still fighting for equal rights in a still male dominated society
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If this is emancipation...
...critics of the government's recent draft on women's issues would rather not have it
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Women to the fore
The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women
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Saved from the axe
Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.
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If words were deeds
If a recently held seminar on the Girl Child in the capital is any indication, her plight is not going to improve in a hurry.
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Lured by money, rewarded with respect
Middle aged Munni, a Tharu tribal of Panchpera village in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, was one of the area's first women to be trained as a handpump mechanic in 1990. Considered the best in the area, she is responsible for 41 pumps, thre