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Early Childhood Education: The squeeze on anganwadi workers

The National Education Policy 2020 has brought attention to Early Childhood Care and education pertaining to the learning of children at the pre-primary level like never before. From pursuing integration of anganwadis and primary schools to activities and play-based learning, greater focus on education at anganwadi centres and appropriate pedagogical training for anganwadi workers, the government has announced several steps. …

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3 weeks ago

Remembering Bhopal Gas Disaster | Governments Do Not Care About the Poor: Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activists

The Hindu

Published : Dec 02, 2024 13:09 IST - 14 MINS READ December 2-3, 1984. The Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, exemplifies what Rob Nixon, professor of Environment and Humanities at Princeton University, calls “slow violence”—harm that unfolds gradually and invisibly, but with devastating, long-lasting effects. We committed the funds to three key objectives: first, to provide free …

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2 months ago

Christian Conversion Racket Exposed in Meerut, India: 40 Children and Women Arrested in Network Marketing Style

Op India

Christian conversion racket operating in network marketing style has been exposed in Meerut. The police conducted raids at a house in Vikas Nagar Colony and found over 40 children and women. It has been reported that in a network marketing style, the non-Christian people were being brainwashed with the promise to bear the expenses of getting their children married, money, …

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2 months ago

Supreme Court's Judgment on Child Marriage: A Violation of Fundamental Rights

Live Law

The Supreme Court has elaborated on how child marriages violate constitutional rights, stating that they violate the rights to self-determination, choice, autonomy, sexuality, health and education of children. The judgment notes that child marriages impose mature burdens on children who are not physically or mentally prepared to comprehend the significance of marriage. When women are forced into marriages to protect …

New Delhi

2 months, 1 week ago

My mother Sally Challen killed my abusive father – so why did I feel shame about being a survivor?

The Independent

Over the years David Challen has picked up many titles – campaigner, writer, adviser, speaker, advocate of women’s rights. “My father’s controlling act upon my mother was abusive to me because he was, you know, attacking her verbally and gaslighting her in front of me and in earshot of me,” Challen says. open image in gallery David Challen is a …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Women with disabilities seen as ‘easy targets’: CJI

The Hindu

Chief Justice of India D.Y. The Chief Justice drew attention to the “dual vulnerability” of women with disabilities, both as women and as individuals with disabilities. They were considered as “easy targets” for sexual violence, he said, while speaking on the topic of ‘Protection Services for Children with Disabilities’. “Sexual violence faced by disabled girls highlights the double marginalisation they …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Women’s panel chief calls for success of ‘Poshan Mah’ programme

The Hindu

State Women’s Commission Chairperson Gajjela Venkata Lakshmi emphasised the importance of pregnant women availing the take-home ration from Anganwadi centres during the ‘7th Rashtriya Poshan Mah-2024’ awareness programme held at the Collectorate’s Sunayana Auditorium here on Thursday. The event, attended by various officials including Joint Collector Dr. B. Navya, aimed to raise awareness about addressing anemia among women, children and …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

37% Children of CSE Women Drop Out From AP Schools

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada:A research study by AP State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in collaboration with HELP NGO, has found that 37 per cent of children belonging to women subjected to commercial sexual exploitation have dropped out of schools in erstwhile Krishna, Guntur and Prakasam districts of Andhra Pradesh. Of the 53 per cent school-going children, only 56 per cent are …

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4 months, 1 week ago

American fertility: What both Democrats and Republicans get wrong, and what’s really going on.

Slate

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris may have been a barrier-breaking prosecutor, a U.S. senator, and the first female vice president. Liberals are right that social and economic conditions impact birth rates—except that any fair reading of the data suggests that the countries with the highest birth rates tend to be poor: The poorest nations have three times the birth rate …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

'Rachel is activated': Jennifer Aniston unloads on J.D. Vance over controversial comment

Raw Story

Vance's comment bemoaning "childless cat ladies" has earned no shortage of jeers, and the Republican vice presidential nominee can count at least one more critic — Jennifer Aniston. In the clip, Vance refers to Democrats as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made.” "And so they want to make …

Jennifer Slammed Vance

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Stampede at religious event in India kills more than 100, mostly women and children

LA Times

Two men mourn a relative killed in a stampede at a religious event in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday. Thousands of people at a religious gathering in India rushed to leave a makeshift tent, setting off a stampede Tuesday that killed more than 100 and left scores injured, officials said. At least 116 people, most of them women and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

Salon

"Other countries have social safety nets. The child care crisis — the current lack of affordable child care for families — illustrates how we rely on mothers to fill in gaps in our economy and our social safety net. Your second chapter, “Leaving Women With No Choice,” starts by saying that once they’re caught in the motherhood trap “it doesn’t …

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9 months, 1 week ago

South Korea to China: Why is East Asia producing so few babies?

Al Jazeera

The reasons are complex — the consequences more straightforward: An ageing population and deepening labour shortage. Indeed, all five of the countries with the world’s lowest birthrates are in East Asia, according to a 2023 CIA report. South Korea, which already had one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, has experienced yet another drop in its birthrate. According …

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11 months ago

Maharashtra anganwadi workers’ strike: 46 days of asking for more

The Hindu

On New Year’s Day, when holiday-goers from Mumbai lazily headed back into the city, thousands of women across Maharashtra, many clad in pink saris and salwar kameez, packed their bags to march to the State capital. As of December 2023, Maharashtra has 1,10,465 anganwadi centres and 1,08,507 anganwadi workers, as per Poshan Tracker, a mobile-based application rolled out by the …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of children waiting nearly a year in ‘unacceptable’ parent custody courts backlog

The Independent

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Immediate investment in early legal advice would help reduce the worsening strain on the family courts …

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1 year ago

‘We barely make ends meet’: In Italy, some women are postponing motherhood

Al Jazeera

Women say that low salaries, precarious employment and poor childcare options are holding them back from starting families. “I left my parents’ home when I was 19 and almost immediately became financially independent by working while studying,” she said. “Care work is still all on women’s shoulders, even for couples where both have jobs,” Chiara Daniela Pronzato, professor of demography …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Justin Trudeau urges Israel to ‘stop killing women, children and babies’ in Gaza

The Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu criticised Justin Trudeau on Wednesday after the Canadian prime minister urged Israel to end the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in Gaza. “While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm’s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm’s way.” Mr Netanyahu said it was Hamas, not Israel, that should be held …

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1 year, 1 month ago

IDF says humanitarian pauses to continue in Gaza to allow Palestinians evacuate southward

Firstpost

IDF’s Arabic language spokesperson Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee in a message to Gazans on X, formerly known as Twitter, said ‘The safe passage remains open today between nine in the morning and four in the afternoon for humanitarian purposes through the Salah al-Din axis’ The Israel Defence Forces has announced that humanitarian pauses will continue in the northern Gaza Strip …

Palestinian Gaza Idf Twitter

1 year, 1 month ago

Five people killed in collision between motorcycle and truck in Karnataka

Hindustan Times

In a tragic incident, as many as five people from a family were killed in a fatal accident in Karnataka's Kalaburagi on Thursday, according to reports. A Srinivasulu, the Superintendent of Police, Kalaburagi, spoke to reporters and said, "All five people died after a motorcycle collided with a truck near Balluragi village in Kalaburagi district. READ | Five including three …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0 reaches children up to five years for the first time

The Hindu

Aimed at ensuring that routine immunisation services reach children who have missed vaccine doses or who have dropped out of their vaccination schedule, as well as pregnant women across the country, the Intensified Mission Indradhanush is scheduled to conclude all three rounds on October 14. “Preparedness assessment for IMI 5.0 was conducted by national monitors between 19-23 July this year …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Posters of missing Israeli children torn down by Palestine supporters in London

The Telegraph

Palestine supporters appear to have torn down posters of missing Israeli children in London. A video shared on Twitter shows posters stuck to phone boxes bearing the word “kidnapped” alongside pictures, names and ages of those thought to have been taken. In another video posted by the same person, two women can be seen tearing similar posters off the walls …

London Posters Palestine Supporters

1 year, 4 months ago

Medicover hospitals gets new women, child facility

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: City-based Medicover Hospitals inaugurated an exclusive women and child facility in Hitec City, with advanced facilities for comprehensive women and child care with 24/7 services, on Sunday. Speaking after inaugurating the facility, Srinivas Reddy congratulated Medicover Hospitals and appreciated their growth in the healthcare sector, with the inauguration of the 25th facility. Chairman and managing director of Medicover Hospitals …

Care Medicover Hospitals Child Facility

1 year, 4 months ago

12,652 children, 2,635 pregnant women to be vaccinated in Kalaburagi district under Mission Indradhanush 5.0

The Hindu

Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner Fauzia Tarannum has appealed to all mothers not to believe in hearsy and myths associated with vaccination under Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0, a campaign to vaccinate children and pregnant women across the State. She was addressing a gathering after launching Mission Indradhanush 5.0 vaccination campaign organised by the district administration, the Zilla Panchayat and the District Health …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Women cops bring ‘light’ of hope in lives of women & children in U.P.

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW The priceless reaction of Bulandshahr-based septuagenarian, Noor Jahan, is drawing aww all over internet while IPS officer Anukriti Sharma is being applauded for what she has caller her real-life ‘Swades’ moment. police on Friday stated that many other women police officers helped women and children by solving their long-pending issues Somewhat similar to the 2004 Bollywood drama in which …

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Early Childhood Education: The squeeze on anganwadi workers

Remembering Bhopal Gas Disaster | Governments Do Not Care About the Poor: Bhopal Gas Tragedy Activists

Christian Conversion Racket Exposed in Meerut, India: 40 Children and Women Arrested in Network Marketing Style

Supreme Court's Judgment on Child Marriage: A Violation of Fundamental Rights

My mother Sally Challen killed my abusive father – so why did I feel shame about being a survivor?

Women with disabilities seen as ‘easy targets’: CJI

Women’s panel chief calls for success of ‘Poshan Mah’ programme

37% Children of CSE Women Drop Out From AP Schools

American fertility: What both Democrats and Republicans get wrong, and what’s really going on.

'Rachel is activated': Jennifer Aniston unloads on J.D. Vance over controversial comment

Stampede at religious event in India kills more than 100, mostly women and children

Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

South Korea to China: Why is East Asia producing so few babies?

Maharashtra anganwadi workers’ strike: 46 days of asking for more

Thousands of children waiting nearly a year in ‘unacceptable’ parent custody courts backlog

‘We barely make ends meet’: In Italy, some women are postponing motherhood

Justin Trudeau urges Israel to ‘stop killing women, children and babies’ in Gaza

IDF says humanitarian pauses to continue in Gaza to allow Palestinians evacuate southward

Five people killed in collision between motorcycle and truck in Karnataka

Intensified Mission Indradhanush 5.0 reaches children up to five years for the first time

Posters of missing Israeli children torn down by Palestine supporters in London

Medicover hospitals gets new women, child facility

12,652 children, 2,635 pregnant women to be vaccinated in Kalaburagi district under Mission Indradhanush 5.0

Women cops bring ‘light’ of hope in lives of women & children in U.P.