Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
As many as 42,000 women from rural areas in Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have learned to read and write. According to the World Bank Development Policy Review 2003, over one third of Indians above sseven years of age are illiterate. This rounds up to over …
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. Married at age five and unschooled, Harpyari now helps her own children with their homework. Harpyari is the end product of a non-governmental …
DELHI Migrants might be causing uproar in some parts of the country but photo-journalist Harish Tyagi sees their lives in an entirely different light through his lense. In an exhibition titled Distress Migration and its Effect on Children, Tyagi's pictures tell an often-sor
At ITC, CSR is built into its businesses. ITC is probably unique in that it does not implement its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a separate foundation or trust. Instead, it has built these initiatives into its business model, by following what it calls the Triple Bottom Line Approach. Its …
The pivot around which the improvement of maternal health revolved was the Indian woman doctor and her growing presence from the 1900s was to be seen at hospitals and welfare centres in the Bombay presidency, promoting knowledge of more hygienic birthing methods and safe infant care. These women physicians, graduates …
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. Helen Keller International and the National Nutrition Programme of the government on Monday organised a seminar on
Andhra Pradesh has been galloping ahead on the road to progress and prosperity at incredible speed in the last four years. Till 2004... every other day, the State had to depend on overdrafts on the RBI to meet its commitments including clearance of bills and payment of salaries. Large sections …
This article presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in Udaipur district in Rajasthan. Its focus is on participation in the NREG programme of different socio-economic groups and the determinants of the participation of …
The Heart of Soweto Study aims to increase our understanding of the characteristics and burden imposed by heart disease in an urban African community in probable epidemiological transition. The authors aimed to investigate the clinical range of disorders related to cardiovascular disease in patients presenting for the first time to …
In 2006, Delhi decided to experiment with the supplementary nutrition programme: it handed over the scheme to NGOs. Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute (SSMI) was given the charge of the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony in western Delhi. It had to cater to about 14,000 children and women. The NGO formed a self-help …
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. In a report presented one day before International Women's Day on March 8, the ILO said women are more likely to be stuck …
Women, the primary caregiver in family, are the most vulnerable group to climate change, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday. They also laid emphasis on gender-sensitive adaptation of climate change and disaster management. The speakers said the poorer the women are, the higher are their vulnerability and sufferings. They …
THE National Women Development Policy 2004, came under fire of women rights groups and civil society leaders for having done away with some of the equal rights provisions of the 1997 policy guidelines. The women development policy just announced by the interim government is an improved version on that adopted …
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 …
THE last couple of decades have witnessed intense resistance movements challenging large-scale displacement caused, among others, by mines, dams, national parks and sanctuaries, bomb and missile-testing ranges, industry and urban expansion. Since 1986, thousands of affected people have also united to struggle against the mammoth displacement being caused by construction …
