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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Nutrition gardens- Women lead the way
<p>Women in rainfed areas in Dharmapuri are switching over to kitchen gardens, which provide nutrition to the family as well as money. By recycling the limited water available, these women have shown that
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Reshaping destinies
<p>The local village communities in Zaheerabad have been able to reclaim their fallowed lands and cultivate a myriad varieties of traditional landraces of food grains. They have not only been able to control
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding female foeticide, 25/11/2014
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Voluntary Health Association of Punjab Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/11/2014 regarding female foeticide. The Court also stated that "we would
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UNDP, ILO, Spanish govt team up to help poor women
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the government, Spanish government and ILO have joined hands to implement a new project - SWAPNO - to help the poorest women move out of extreme poverty,
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No toilet, no bride, say manual scavengers
Most of these women were forced to become manual scavengers after marriage Shochalaya nahin toh dulhan nahin [No toilet, no bride]” This is the slogan raised by women from Alwar and Kota in Rajasthan,
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Assistance for landslide affected women, children
Steps have been taken to provide assistance to the children and women distressed by landslides in Haldummulla and Eeriyabedde under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s directives, Child Development and Women’s
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Climate change, out-migration and agrarian stress: the potential for upscaling small-scale water storage in Nepal
Climate change could have a critical impact on agriculture in Nepal due to changes in the variability of water availability and associated uncertainty. In this context, small-scale water storage—most notably
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Agriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050: an assessment of climate change impacts and household resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru
This report has been prepared in response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people. Findings suggest that because of the climate change
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2015 Hunger Report: when women flourish…we can end hunger
This shows why empowering women is vital to ending hunger and poverty. Women are the primary agents the world relies on to fight hunger. In developing countries, most women work in subsistence farming
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Gender and food security: towards gender-just food and nutrition security
There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but the number of people who do not have enough to eat remains unacceptably high, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls. Reversing