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01 Sep, 2017
Women are especially hard-hit by the social impacts of environmental disasters. Gender inequality in social, economic and political spheres often results in vast differences between men a...
24 Aug, 2017
The feminist trade-union of women wastepickers in India, has 8,000 members all of whom belong to the ‘lower’ Dalit caste. Established in the early 1990’s, the trade-union has brought abou...
22 Aug, 2017
Millions of people in South Asia have been displaced over the past few days and more than 245 have died due to monsoon floods and landslides in parts of northern India, southern Nepal and...
18 Aug, 2017
The story of 2017 floods in India presents a grim picture of death, destruction and many million displacements. Assam has seen 2.2 million people displaced; Bihar witnessed another 2 mill...
14 Aug, 2017
Incessant floods in Assam left lakhs of people homeless. Every day is a struggle. They have no access to food, clean water or sanitation facilities. Oxfam India is rigorously working wit...
02 Aug, 2017
What is Section 498A? Where is the Evidence on the Misuse on Section 498 A? The recent supreme court verdict of diluting Section 498 A will only serve to add one more layer of structu...