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Health

Male Rickshaw Drivers Playing Key Role In Maternal Health Campaign In India

ODISHA, India (WOMENSENEWS)–As the auto rickshaws begin lining up inside the compound at 7 a.m., Vijaylakmi Sahu knows she has just 30 minutes to finish her work. Over t...

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Environment

UK?s winter floods strengthen belief humans causing climate change

Britons say they are more convinced climate is changing and that humans are the main cause More than a quarter of people say UK?s winter floods strengthened their belief in hu...

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Sustainable Development

ATM Machine Helps Indian Women Quietly Report Rape Without Going To The Police

In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earlier,...

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Health

Breastfeeding linked with mental health

Mothers who successfully breastfeed baby less likely to get postnatal depression new mothers who successfully breastfeed their babies are less likely to get postnatal depressi...

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Environment

Climate change led to the fall of great civilisations

Scientists probe ancient barley to understand the impact of climate on early farming societies Civilisations thrived only when there was proper rain and water was available fo...

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Sustainable Development

Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister P ...

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Health

Hormone ‘protects brains of Premature babies’

The hormone erythropoietin (EPO) could prevent brain injuries in very premature babies, a study suggests. Brain scans show EPO – used illegally by athletes to boost perf...

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Environment

Climate change likely to widen health inequities: WHO paper

Poorer populations and children will be disproportionately affected? Emphasising the urgent need to fight climate changes, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday sug...

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Sustainable Development

India less committed to reducing hunger than Nepal or Bangladesh

ndia ranked 19th among 45 developing countries assessed by UK-based organization India has made quite some progress in countering hunger and under-nutrition in the past two ye...

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Sustainable Development

5 Traditionally Male Jobs You Didn't Know Women Pioneered

Today, women make up nearly half of America’s workforce, and counting. But even as women achieve new levels of success at work, some fields remain heavily male-dominated...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024