The election battle, and the challenges ahead

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The election battle, and the challenges ahead

Not a drop to drink - beware the looming water crisis

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Water as we know, is the elixir of life- without it, the living organism will die. In a capitalist world characterized by overconsumption and marketing of all resources, the global water crisis has acquired alarming proportions. Continents, countries, cities are witnessing unprecedented “desertification”. Dire predictions that the next World War will be fought around water do not appear far fetched any more.

Arresting the threat to food security from the “aadhar” onslaught.

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Simdega district in Jharkhand, with a large tribal population, and chronically beset by high levels of malnutrition and ill health, has shot into the national news recently for all the wrong reasons. The tragic death of a 11 year old girl named Santoshi Kumari has stirred public conscience, at a time when the lives of poor people appear to have fallen off the Government radar almost completely. The video recordings which went viral after the incident capture the plight of a family so poor that they could not feed their 11 year old child.

Gorakhpur deaths- addressing an unfolding tragedy.

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Zahid Ali of village Bichhiya thus narrated the incident of his five year old daughter, Khushi. She ran high fever and was taken to a nearby doctor. Next day, the girl started vomiting and trembling. Then she was brought to the medical college hospital on the night of August 10. Zahid stated that the atmosphere at the ward was of utter confusion. Everybody was running here and there. The attending nurse gave him an AMBU bag – a device which supplies oxygen to patients temporarily.

Health Workshop for AIDWA activists – strengthening the fight for our right to health care

18 Sep 2017

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AIDWA took the initiative to organize a two day workshop on health related issues for activists from the Hindi speaking states. The growing challenge to achieving the right to health care, in a context where government policy was increasingly promoting the private corporate sector in health services.

Interventions in health and population policies- the AIDWA experience.

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The All India Democratic Women’s Association, (AIDWA) which has been one of the frontline organisations in the countrywide campaign for women’s rights and women’s equality, firmly believes that the issues of women need to be addressed through multiple interventions and struggles, so as to alter oppressive power structures, in the family, in society, and in the policy framework.

Work Participation Rates and women’s status- new inequities, new equations

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Resurgent India is facing many anomalies. For instance, the economic growth curve, somewhat affected by the global meltdown, is now expected to get back on track and move upwards again, beyond the 9% high of 2008. This has not, however, improved our HDI ranking. This year’s UN HDR Report places us at 134 out of 182 countries.

AIDWA Welcomes Introduction of Pro-Women Legislation by UPA Govt

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THE current session of parliament has witnessed the introduction of many bills of specific relevance to women. While welcoming the fact that the UPA government has paid at least partial heed to the pro-poor promises made in the National Common Minimum Programme (CMP), it should be noted that this was done with active prompting from the Left and the sustained intervention of democratic organisations like the AIDWA. But there is still a long way to go.