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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Fair play
The Supreme Court of India has asked all state governments about the enforcement of guidelines on sterlisation. The Supreme Court (sc) directive regarding the framing of a proper insurance scheme to
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Manukhbhai Suvagia
Shapar, Rajkot, Gujarat
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Tribal women edged out of forests
IS one born a woman or does one become one? Were women all through history burdened by inequitous norms and rules even during the period when surplus accumulation did not form the basis of
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Amnesty portrays India's warts in detail
IN DAYS long gone, the bearer of bad tidings was usually put to death unceremoniously. In today's more civilised times, we in the Third World prefer to vilify such messengers as biased agents of
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Mother and nature...both?
STUDIES on the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India remain a grey area, tackled by very few economists, a notable exception being Bina Agarwal.
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Pregnancy pangs
Women juggling busy careers and a heavy load of household responsibilities may be at a high risk for deve loping complications during pregnancy. In fact, demands on pregnant women at home "maybe
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Gender bias
Studies from Africa show that women are more prone to the <font class='UCASE'>aids </font> virus than men. This will require reorientating drug research
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Old Batteries New Rules
The Indian government comes out with the draft rules for recycling lead acid batteries. Their effectiveness is questionable
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Not a preserve of women
Though women were the primary participants in Chipko, men and children were also involved in the movement at various levels.
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Umbilical Discord
An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. Because those who survive suffer from grave deformities. S G Kabra, physician at the Indian Institute of Health