India

 Scarred by violence and fundamentalism

1992 proved the Indian women's movement needs to reassess its priorities and strategies.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Kumud Sharma
Down to Earth
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19930131
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Tags:
Women, Contraception, Human Rights, Popular Movements, India
India

 A bitter prelude to salvation

Moksha makes a stunning statement on the indignity of being an Indian widow.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Sevanti Ninan
Down to Earth
1
19930131
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Tags:
Rural Habitat, Women, Video, India
India

 Do men fall ill more often than women?

THE FIRST all-India household survey of medical care shows some interesting results. The survey, which was conducted in 1990 in 21 states and Union territories and covered 18,000 households, found

Publication Date: 
Thursday, January 14, 1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Traditional Knowledge, Health Care, India, Statistics
Water Resources

The raindrop

"The Raindrop" is about a village near Chandigarh in Haryana. The book tells the story how this village was able to transform itself from a drought prone one to a food exporting one through community efforts and scientific watershed management.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1992
Priti Jain, Feisal Alkazi, Martha Farrell & et al
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Watershed Development, Drought, Women, Environment Education, Chandigarh, Haryana
Forests

Chipko

This book is about a people's movement to save their forests and trees. Chipko movement started in 1970s in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh and saw active participation of women in the forefront.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1992
Priti Jain, Feisal Alkazi, Martha Farrell & et al
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Trees, Chipko Movement, Women, Uttar Pradesh, Chamoli
India

 Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS

Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Fauziah Varusay
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Children, Health Care, AIDS, WHO, Developing Countries
India

 Gender roles among the Mukkuvar fisherfolk

THIS REMARKABLE book transcends the crucial limitations of both Marxist social theory and conventional anthropology by consciously avoiding "economism" and "culturism". While recognising "the

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Deepti Priya
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Women, India, Tamil Nadu, Fisherfolk
India

 I hate scavenging, but what else can I do?

Rameshwari has been working as a scavenger in the pilgrim town of Ajmer in Rajasthan for the last 15 years. She abhors her work, yet she does it as it is her only source of livelihood.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Amit Mitra
Down to Earth
1
19921130
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Tags:
Scavengers, Women, India, Rajasthan
Environment

 Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
1
19921115
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Tags:
Rural Habitat, Women, Children, Education, CSE
India

 Only males need apply...

With an increasing number of joint forest management projects being implemented, it is vital that forest departments become more gender sensitive. Unfortunately, there is a curious dearth of women field staff in the country's forests.

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Madhu Sarin
Down to Earth
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19921115
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Tags:
Joint Forest Management (JFM), Rural Habitat, Tribals, Women

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