Climate Change

Climate change and gender justice

This book considers how gender issues are entwined with people

Publication Date: 
01/11/2009
Geraldine Terry
Oxfam International
Tags:
El Nino, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Biofuel, Climate Adaptation, Women, Rural Development, India, Developing Countries
Environment

State of world population 2009: facing a changing world - women, population and climate

Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2009
Richard Kollodge
United Nations Population Fund
Tags:
Environment, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Extreme Weather Events, Emission Targets, Migration, People, Population, Population Trends, Women, India, Global, Food Security, Health Effects
Mining

In widow village, they die for Rs 200 a day

NARAYAN BARETH

Sriji Ka Kheda is now practically a village of widows. Falling under Bhilwara district, the village has 60 houses and 70 widows. Most of their husbands lost their lives working as labour in quarries and dying of silicosis.

"It is a very sad story.
Most of the widows are under 40," said Bhanwar Bairwa of Salja panchayat.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Health Effects, Women, Occupational Health, Silicosis, Rajasthan, Bhilwara (D)
Poverty

Womens power

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has turned out to be a

Publication Date: 
27/10/2009
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Women, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram (D)
Governance And Institutions

Women workers and perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which entitles rural households to 100 days of casual employment on public works at the statutory minimum wage, contains special provisions to ensure full participation of women. This paper, based on fieldwork in six states in 2008, examines the socio-economic consequences of the nrega for women workers.

Publication Date: 
24/10/2009
Nandini Nayak, Reetika Khera
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Workers, Women, Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Governance And Institutions, India, Statistics
Climate Change

New age challenge for women

Without doubt, climate change will affect us all but the most vulnerable are women who could actually play a large role in curbing the effects of climate change. Yet they remain invisible in any decision-making effort. In every society women and men have gender roles but with climate change the gender inequality is magnified.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2009
Marianne de Nazareth
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, People, Women
Climate Change

New age challenge for women

With each UNFCCC meeting, one is apprised of the galloping pace at which climate change is affecting the planet. Extremes of weather and natural disasters have become commonplace, with devastating floods in Africa and Asia, extreme cold or heat waves in Europe and the spectre of hurricanes in the Americas.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2009
Marianne de Nazareth
Down To Earth
Tags:
UNFCCC, Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Floods, People, Women
People

Local warming

For most women in Punjab, dinnertime means heading to the kitchen to begin making chapatis. But things have changed in Fazilka. At dinnertime, they dress up just that little bit and are out of their homes with kneaded flour as they head for the neighbourhood chulha. Here, they bake their bread even as they talk and gossip before going back home with hot chapatis.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2009
Arvind Chhabra
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Biomass, Women, Punjab
Poverty

NREGA not benefiting single women: Activists

Even as the central government is giving impetus to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by renaming it the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, single women feel that the scheme is not benefiting them.

The point came out today during a discussion here on the occasion of the launch of the National Forum for Single Women

Publication Date: 
08/10/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Women, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
People

Reservation for women in Panchayats: A sop in disguise?

The decision by the union cabinet to raise reservation for women from one-third to 50% of seats at all three levels of panchayats is a welcome one. However, this decision was taken without addressing the problems caused by mandatory rotation of reserved seats, which women have been drawing attention to and the impasse over the Women

Publication Date: 
03/10/2009
Nirmala Buch
Economic and Political Weekly
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40
8
Tags:
People, Women, Legislation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Panchayats, India

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