Economy

Asia Pacific human development report 2010: power, voice and rights

The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
UNDP
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Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Development, Women, Economic Development, Human Rights, Politics, Asia, India, South Asia
Agriculture

Preliminary study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on discrimination in the context of the right to food

In its resolution 10/12, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to undertake a study on discrimination in the context of the right to food, including identification of good practices of anti-discriminatory policies and strategies, and

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
United Nations Human Rights Council
Tags:
Land Reforms, Agriculture, Malnutrition, GM Crops, Women, Children, Refugees, Health Care, Human Rights, India, Global, Food Security
Governance And Institutions

Piloting innovations in NREGS: The plus factors

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
Ruchi Kukreti
Development Alternatives
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Women, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Governance And Institutions, Panchayats, UNDP, Development Alternatives (DA), Madhya Pradesh, Tikamgarh (D), Uttar Pradesh, Jhansi (D), Bundelkhand
Climate Change

Gender, climate change and health

The draft discussion paper offers available information on the differential links between climate change and the health of women and men through the perspectives of direct and indirect health consequences, and the possible interaction of biological and social risk factors in determining these impacts.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
WHO
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Land Use, Health Effects, Climate Change, Global Warming, Health, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Migration, Displacement, Women, India, Global
Health

New FOGSI president to focus on maternal mortality rate

Bringing down the maternal mortality rate and setting up the patients

Publication Date: 
27/01/2010
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Health, Women, Maternal Health
Health

Rs 9,000-cr nutrition schemes for women likely

They aim to benefit pregnant women and the young.

The programme for young and adolescent girls integrates two existing schemes

Publication Date: 
20/01/2010
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Health, Women
Agriculture

My farm lady

While women are the mainstay of Indian farm and allied sectors, they are far from being the decision makers
Surinder Sud / New Delhi January 12, 2010, 0:14 IST

Publication Date: 
12/01/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Labourers, Women
Agriculture

Farming out issues to redefine womens role

With traditional preoccupation of Indian women with agriculture coming under gradual stress due to advent of new technologies and change in farming pattern, the Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA) is working hard to redefine the role of women in farm sector.

Publication Date: 
07/01/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Systems, Women, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Orissa (Odisha)
Forests

Chipko lives on

Millions of trees in ecologically crucial areas like the Himalayas and Western Ghats have been saved by Chipko and Appiko Movement. These movements also worked for the regeneration of greenery over thousands of acres. The results can be seen in the forests of Jardhar and Piplet in Uttarakhand or the forests near Mendemane and Gubbigadde villages in Karnataka.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2010
Bharat Dogra
Civil Society
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Forests, Western Ghats, Forest Conservation, Chipko Movement, Appiko Movement, Women, Karnataka, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Tehri Garhwal
Habitat And Urbanisation

Urbanization dynamics and WHOs healthy city initiatives in the South-East Asia Region

It is an accepted fact that the fast and skewed urbanization process that is presently taking place in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region is becoming a powerful agent of change and is accompanied with economic opportunities, environmental threats and health challenges.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2010
Surinder Aggarwal, Abdul Sattar Yoosuf
Regional Health Forum
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Floods, Health, Habitat And Urbanisation, Migration, Urbanisation, Women, Poverty, Governance, WHO, Asia, India, Regional Health Forum, Surinder Aggarwal, Abdul Sattar Yoosuf

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