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
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Mira Behn: A friend of nature
The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life
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Women to the fore
With the 4th un Conference on Women and the ngo Forum on Women (Beijing) round the corner, the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (wedo) has launched the 180 Days/180
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Manna Singh
Sahdol, Madhya Pradesh
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Another movement, another purpose
The Parvatiya Van Bachao Andolan aims at protecting Kumaon forests from all tree fellers not just those from outside.
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Cities of joy
Better late than never. Germany has initiated the Agenda 21 process across the country. Already nine per cent of all municipalities have plans chalked out for a sustainable future. The process is bringing about a change, worthy of note, but hard issues li
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McNamara shoots from the hip
Today's neo Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent expression of this trend
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The gap
Poverty is gendered
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Laxmi Narayan Joshi
Saipura, Rajasthan
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Conflict in the womb
An American biologist claims that a pregnant woman and her foetus are constantly engaged in a struggle with each other
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A monthly defence
A recent hypothesis contends that menstruation protects women against various uterine infections.