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Climate Change

Impact of climate change on life and livelihood of Dalits - An exploratory study from disaster risk reduction lens

The collaborative study by National Dalit Watch of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights & Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development reviews the exclusion of Dalit communities in climate change adaptation programmes and policies through case studies and desk review.

Publication Date: 
19/12/2013
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development
Tags:
Climate Change, People, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, Poverty, Climate Adaptation, Floods, Assam, Brahmaputra Valley, Karnataka, Dhemaji (D), Scheduled Castes, Agriculture, Disaster Management, India
People

Every Child’s birth right: inequities and trends in birth registration

Birth registration is a critical first step towards protecting children throughout their lives. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five in the world have not had their births registered. The report presents latest available data and estimates on birth registration in 161 countries.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2013
UNICEF
Tags:
Children, Population, India, South Asia, Global, Health Care, Infant mortality, Statistics
People

15 bonded labourers freed

MIRPURKHAS, Nov 5: The district and sessions court of Mirpurkhas ordered release of 15 bonded labourers belonging to Kot Ghulam Mohammad taluka after recording their statements on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
06/11/2013
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, South Asia, Bonded Labour
Environment

Western Ghats people’s forum to launch protest

Kochi: The Western Ghats people’s forum will stage an agitation in Thiruvananthapuram in the first week of December to press its demand that residential areas, farm lands and estates should be excl

Publication Date: 
31/10/2013
Times Of India (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Western Ghats, People, Kozhikode (D), Palakkad (D), Wayanad, Kottayam (D), Farmers, Displacement
People

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India on providing reservation to provide reservation to the blind and low vision persons in government jobs dated 08/10/2013

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Union of India & Others Vs National Federation of the Blind & Others dated 08/10/2013 on failure of the Govt of India to provide reservation to the blind and low vision persons and they are virtually excluded from the process of recruitment to the Government posts as stipulated under Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal
Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.

Judgement Date: 
08/10/2013
Tags:
Physical Disability, Government Of India (GOI), Supreme Court
People

World population to shoot up to 9.7b in 2050: study

The world’s population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, a French study said Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
03/10/2013
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Population, People, India, China, World Bank, Africa, United States Of America (US), Indonesia, Brazil
People

The Global Gender Gap report 2013

The Global Gender Gap Report, introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, provides a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities around the world.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2013
World Economic Forum
Tags:
Women, Health, Education, Politics, Economy, India, Global
People

65 million people live in slums in India, says census data

Newly released census data shows families living in slums have a far better child sex ratio than the urban Indian average. Over a third of India’s slum dwellers live in unrecognised slums.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2013
Rukmini S
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Slums, Population, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Unemployment, People
People

Key issue before NAC: should projects displacing tribals be resisted?

Manmohan Singh’s high-level panel to examine controversial issue of mining.

Publication Date: 
23/09/2013
Smita Gupta
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Tribals, Displacement, Development, Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Orissa (Odisha), Keonjhar (D)
People

Delhi world’s second most populous city

Mumbai Ranks Seventh, Tokyo Tops The List

The tions urban of agglomera Delhi and - Mumbai, which barely matched up to global cities in size in 1950, are now counted among the seven most populous mega-cities in the world, reveals the 2013 World Population Data Sheet released by the US’s Population Reference Bureau on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2013
Madhavi Rajadhyaksha
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Population, Mumbai, Migration, Europe, People

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