Tag: empowerment
Delwara, Rajasthan Is A Model For Women Empowerment
Key government positions are run by women in the Delwara tehsil of Rajasthan.
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Elections 2019: Equality, Safety, and Land Rights Top the List of Demands by Women
Several women came together before Lok Sabha Elections to oppose the lack of accountability of the government towards increasing violence and inequality against women in India. Women across the country marched for their constitutional rights in New Delhi on 4 April 2019. These women were raising their voices against growing...
No work for 3 years under MNREGA -Anil from Uttar Pradesh reports
The MGNREGA was initiated with the objective of “enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work”. But the people of Kushal Village in Uttar Pradesh have...
Missing doctors & Infrastructure at a PHC in Gujarat – Video Volunteer Neeru Reports
At Doliya Primary Health Centre, Surendranagar District in Guajarat, the absence of doctors, nurses, sanitation and equipment means that pregnant women as well as other patients who come in suffer. Residents of the area say that no deliveries take place at the PHC due to a shortage of doctors and...
Fayaz Ahmad was brutally killed in Kupwara | Azhar Reports for KashmirUnheard
FEBRUARY 2, 2009Fayaz Ahmad Mir of Khurhama (Kupwara), a tailor, was killed by 18-RR when he came out to attend to the nature’s call during late hours. Pir Azhar reports from kupwara.
Woman Disabled After Sterilisation Awaits Justice
In 2011, Kanku Bai a woman from Rajasmand District of Rajasthan underwent sterilisation. Soon after the procedure, she started facing complications. Despite approaching local health facilities her condition did not improve. Over four years, her conditioned worsened. Today, she can neither walk, move her arms or speak. Her husband has...
Clean water supply made possible in a Mumbai slum | IMPACT
‘People spit and dogs urinate in these water lines, and we have no option but to fill water from these lines. This water is not even suitable for animals and yet we are forced to drink this water’.For nearly 15 years, this was the condition of residents of the Rahul...