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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FM raises a toast to women, minorities
The Union Budget 2008-09 has seen funds for women, minorities and Scheduled Tribes go up substantially. One of the beneficiaries of a 24 per cent rise in allocations for the Ministry of Women and Child Development is a plan to prevent trafficking of girls for which the ministry has chalked out a scheme called Ujjwala. The Budget has kept a provision of Rs 9 crore for the scheme, following sustained campaign by NGOs and international bodies. The ministry's allocation of Rs 7,200 crore for 2008-09 is up from Rs 5,793 crore, the revised estimate for the 2007-08 Budget. A major part of the enhanced allocations would go to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) that caters to the nutritional and healthcare needs of pre-school children and mothers in rural areas. The ICDS allocation is mainly meant for the hiked emolument for workers and helpers of some 6,284 Anganwadi centres across the country. Another Rs 200 crore has been allocated for a new scheme
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Women workers still vulnerable to poverty, unemployment: ILO
Women are in the workplace like never before but they are still more vulnerable than men to unemployment and low-paid jobs, the International Labour Organisation said Friday.
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Anaemia in adolescent girls reduced by almost 10pc
The prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls has been reduced from 52.4 per cent in 2004 to 43.5 per cent in 2007, revealed the Helen Keller International at a seminar on Monday.
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Ma, ho gai pass? Literacy drive targets rural women
At 35, when Harpyari first held a pen and wrote her name it was a child-like scrawl. However, with it, she etched a lasting story of empowerment.
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Action For Welfare And Awakening In Rural Environment (AWARE)
Action for Welfare and Awakening in Rural Environment is an organization dedicated to serving the poorest of poor and the most oppressed communities, namely, the tribals, the harijans, and women from all
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DISHA
DISHA is a voluntary organization working for socio-economic development of urban and rural communities. DISHA is a voluntary organization inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology of serving the downtrodden,
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Indian Social Institute (ISI)
The Indian Social Institute, New Delhi was established in 1951 in response to the challenges of nation- building and a new emerging social order of independent India. It has evolved its vision, mission,
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Youthreach
Founded in 1997, Youthreach is a national non profit organisation based in New Delhi, which seeks to inspire individual and collective transformation to create positive social change. Youthreach currently
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Demand Nirbhaya—fearless—cities
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Catalysing safe design for public spaces should be among the top priorities