Global gender gap report 2023
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival,
Politics
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We need another kind of scientist to save the world
One point repeatedly made at last week's climate change congress in Copenhagen was that formulating an action plan to curb climate change is not the job of scientists. (Editorial)
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Manifesto of the Indian National Congress: Lok Sabha Elections 2009
The Indian National Congress seeks a fresh mandate on the basis of its core values and ideology
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Gandhi The angel of history: Reading Hind Swaraj today
<p>Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is more than a political text. It is an ontological drama staged by Gandhi, reflected in his treatises against "modern civilisation", and his critique of "modernity".</p> <p> </p>
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CPI election manifesto 2009
The elections to the 15th Lok Sabha are being held at a time when the country faces serious threat to its economic and political independence due to right-ward shift in economic policies under the garb of economic neo-liberalism and pro-imperialist tilt in the foreign policy. This is under the dubious slogan of building strategic partnership with the USA.
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Peoples manifesto 2009
To facilitate linkages between the voices of the masses and the future decision makers, South Asian Peoples' Initiatives (SAPI) and Indian Social Institute, New Delhi jointly organized a national workshop in Delhi, on People's Manifesto 2009 (PM 2009). Many from grassroots organizations, representatives of people's movements, NGOs, civil and democratic groups,
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Norway, the United States, and commercial whaling: Political culture and social movement framing
Norway has long tried to portray itself as one of the most environmentally responsible states. But it has consistently refused to support the moratorium against commercial whaling. This article offers a cultural explanation for this seeming contradiction, by examining the way the global antiwhaling movement framed the issue and the Norwegian environmental organizations reframed it.
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Outside looking in: Understanding the role of science in regulation
Regulatory bodies worldwide are charged with making major decisions related to chemical toxicology, such as designation of toxic thresholds and establishment of criteria for preclinical testing and toxic hazard classification.
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Democracy in praxis: Two non-left gram panchayats in West Bengal
Drawing upon a micro-study of two villages in two non-Left gram panchayats in West Bengal, this paper puts one issue in the foreground, namely, the idea and practice of local politics.
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Memoirs of a Chinese worker
Book>> Socialism is Great
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Passages from nature to nationalism: Sunderlal Bahuguna and Tehri Dam opposition in Garhwal
This paper focuses on the shifting contours of the anti-Tehri dam movement in the past three decades. It examines the changing declarations of environmentalists, especially Sunderlal Bahuguna and other leaders of the movement on the one hand, and the involvement of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in the anti-dam politics on the other.