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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Overcoming the gender barrier
Several voluntary agencies are working to provide greater control over natural resource use.
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Time for Green from the ground up
The show is over. It's time to stop talking and get down to work
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Neem contraceptive
NEEM is being tested as a contraceptive that can be injected or applied in the vagina. While the contraceptive effect of the injection is expected to last for as long as six months, the vaginal
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Taking the magic out of miracles
Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do
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Women build where others destroy
Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?
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More miles to go for Chipko women
The Chipko movement halted commercial tree felling in UP's Chamoli district, but the women who led it are still fighting corrupt and indifferent forest officials and fund constraints to maintain the pace of development
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The evolution, structure, and impact of the Chipko Movement
<p>The traditional Indian strategy of resolving conflict by non-cooperation, the satyagraha, has been revived in the Chipko, or "Embrace the Tree", the movement to protect trees from commercial
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Ghandi's ghost saves the Himalayan trees
From Kashmir to Burma, where tigers once lived amid lush forests, a vast tract of land has been laid bare by the timber industry. In its wake have come landslides, drought and yet further poverty. The
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Ministry of Women and Child Development
The Department of Women and Child Development was set up in the year 1985 as a part of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to give the much needed impetus to the holistic development of women and children. With effect from 30.01.2006, the Department has been upgraded to a Ministry.The broad mandate of the Ministry is to have holistic development of Women and Children.
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Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2008
This report describes important methodological issues involved in generating internationally comparable estimates of poverty. The special chapter, titled Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities, also provides comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and Pacific region, and, critically, to the poor. A major contribution of the report is to examine the sensitivity of poverty estimates to different methods for evaluating purchasing power parities (PPP).