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Jill Clark-Gollub recently returned from a delegation to Nicaragua that focused on conditions for women. She describes the country as “run by women” who connect their feminism to the struggles against capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.
Violence on this scale has to be treated as a social and not an individual phenomenon. The society has itself become toxic and hazardous.
The pandemic demonstrated that the current global public health system is failing the Global South. We need a new one.
The ‘Shaheen Bagh’ activism of women draws upon Ambedkar’s legacy to make connections between the attack on the citizenship of Muslims and the slide back in constitutional values.
Davos is where the lords of transnational capital and their agents gather to hammer out annually how they are to maintain and expand their rule. This year, uncertainty over their ability to manage the crisis, maintain control, restabilize global capitalism was on full display.
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
Taxing India’s 10 richest billionaires at only 5% can fetch the entire money needed to bring children back to school, says the report released at WEF Davos meet.
The employment rate fell to 36% in 2022 from 43% in 2016. This was a 7% fall in the employment rate in a country that has the largest young population in the world. This employment rate is much lower than the world average of about 60%.
Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.
Indra Shekhar Singh hosts a discussion with economist Jean Dreze and former agriculture secretary Siraj Hussain to discuss the consequences of PMGKAY’s discontinuation and providing free food under the National Food Security Act.
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