Livelihood

10.03.2008 UNICEF's 2008 Humanitarian Action Report emphasises on greater accountability and leadership action by humanitarian agencies for 39 emergencies across the world. Apart from strengthening coordination between actors to ensure timely response, the report also claims it is important to train women and children to cope with disasters.

05.11.2007 Editor Sumi Krishna provides a historical perspective on women’s citizenship and livelihood rights in her book Women’s Livelihood Rights: Recasting Citizenship for Development. The various articles capture stories of struggle and success from the field in the context of economic rights to natural resource based livelihoods even while celebrating the collective power of women. OneWorld South Asia speaks to her about the book.

19.12.2006 In November 2006, at the India Social Forum 2006 in New Delhi, more than 94 CWLR members debated and lobbied for strategies to increase land and resource rights for women. This report documents the processes at the ISF, subsequent discussions with government representatives and the way ahead.

13.10.2006 In this book, author Rupal Oza, associate professor and Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Hunter College, City University of New York, examines the impact of globalization on the discourse around Indian culture and identity.

07.09.2006 Governments must do more to address the human rights violations and lack of opportunities that force women and girls, who make up half the world’s 95 million migrants, to leave their homes, while countries need to work together to make migration safer and in particular stamp out human trafficking, according to new reports issued today by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

19.07.2006 In the recent past, intellectual patent laws, copyright regimes and trademarks have suddenly pervaded many spheres of existence. While they are discussed and debated at "intellectual " "scientific" and "business forums", they have an impact at every level. With rapid globalization this impact is likely to spread wider and deeper. This paper tries to examine the effect of such regimes on biodiversity related knowledge systems and possible ways of creating open knowledge systems, which would genuinely benefit the poor and the marginalised.

22.05.2006 In this paper, Ms.Nayak points to the violence that is inherent in the present development paradigm, and its impact on the lives of women who work in the traditional fisheries sector. She concludes the essay with the following words: “Several years ago we had come up with a slogan Without Women in Fisheries, NO Fish in the Sea and I still believe this holds true.”

12.04.2006 Poverty, Gender and Migration is the second in a series of five volumes on gender and migration, edited by Meenakshi Thapan. While these volumes together seek to synthesise understanding of gender and migration from social, cultural and political contexts, each volume by itself addresses and emphasises a specific aspect of the issue and contributes to it. The themes thus addressed are poverty, work, reconstruction of women’s identity, the institution of marriage and the wider social relations within the Asian context, and women’s migration in conflict situations.

07.03.2006 Employment opportunities for slum women have increased in Bangladesh making them financially secure as well get a place in a male-dominated society. Researchers from Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra in Bangladesh, the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Bath in the UK try and find out if urban employment has made a difference to the lives of slum women.

22.02.2006 The National Credit Fund for Women or the Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) was set up in March 1993 as an independent registered society by the Department of Women & Child Development in Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development with an initial corpus of Rs. 310,000,000 - not to replace the banking sector but to fill the gap between what the banking sector offers and what the poor need.

08.02.2006 peaking at the book launch, B.P. Singh, former home secretary of India who edited Bhatt's book, said when the South Asia series was first conceived by Oxford University Press, the publishers, in July 2000, he was at a loss for who would write the first book in the series. Considering many possible authors who were experts in their chosen fields, Singh's thoughts turned to Ela Bhatt, a 'gentle revolutionary' who, in 1972, started what is perhaps India's most widespread women's trade union-the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)... Here we reproduce excerpts from an interview with Ela Bhatt..

03.02.2006 In the book, Capabilities, Freedom and Equality: Amartya Sen's Work from a Gender Perspective edited by Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, Ingrid Robeyns, Prof.Amartya Sen provides insights into what led him to examine gender issues intellectually. `My early encounters, when I was a student,' he says `with the role of tilted attitudes and positional observations and slanted habits of thought did prove, in retrospect, highly educational for me. I do see myself, in part, as a feminist economist, in addition to having other descriptions to which I respond.' Here is an excerpt from the book.

31.10.2005 In this paper presented at U.G.C. Sponsored Symposium on Macro Economic Policies and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) organized by the P.G. Department of Economics, SNDT women’s University, Mumbai-400020 on 30th and 31st August, 2005, Dr.Vibhuti Patel addresses the impact of Macro Economic Policies and Globalisation on the lives of women.

28.09.2005 The International Labout Organisation (ILO) has said that nearly 2.2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year, adding that this number may be vastly under estimated due to poor reporting and coverage systems in many countries.

05.08.2005 Focusing efforts into increasing women’s participation in policy, regulatory and advocacy issues is an effective and powerful way to achieve competitive and fair levels in the ICT sector. With increased participation, women can hope for economic empowerment, increased learning opportunities and improved market access.

21.07.2005 Drawing on the practices and experiences of 25 countries, this book shows how governments, employers' organizations, and trade unions around the world bring gender equality into their institutional structures, policies, programmes, and activities.

Author/Publisher: ILO Bureau for Gender Equality, 2004

16.06.2005 The Advance Social Watch Report 2005, entitled 'Unkept Promises: What the Numbers Say About Poverty and Gender', will be launched during the Informal Interactive Hearings of the UN General Assembly with non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector which will take place in New York, USA, from June 23 to 24, 2005. This event is a lead-up event to the Millennium Summit+5, to be held 14-16 September 2005 in New York.