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'Criminalising the client will cause prostitution to drop by 80%': Catharine MacKinnon
Leading American feminist Catharine MacKinnon makes a strong case for criminalising the client and not the sex worker More... Genetic rouletteJeffrey M Smith, an authority on genetically modified organisms and the author of Genetic Roulette, says that 65 health risks from GMOs provide irrefutable evidence. of harm. In this interview he explains why GM technology must be confined to the lab More... How safe are NREGS wage payments through banks and post offices?When the government decreed that all payments to beneficiaries under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act would be made through banks and post offices it thought it had plugged the leaks in the system. But bank accounts too can be manipulated, as a social audit carried out in Karon block in Jharkhand state showed More... Ganesh, the big small farmer of RalegaonGanesh Kale was just eight when his father committed suicide. Now 11, Ganesh is one of a growing tribe of Vidarbha’s baccha-kisans (child farmers) who are tilling their fields, taking their crops to market, and grappling with their family’s finances and needs More... Inheritors of debt and distressWith 40,000 farmer suicides in Maharashtra between 1995 and 2007, there are thousands of households where children have been forced out of school and into the fields to shoulder the family burden. Vidarbha is one of the worst-affected regions. This series of articles by Jaideep Hardikar reports on these children who have inherited debt and distress More... And there was lightAt a time when rural electrification is moving at snail’s pace in Jharkhand, with nearly 50% of villages continuing to live in the ‘Dark Ages’, villagers are using bio-gassifiers and micro-thermal plants to light up their homes and streets More... Leaving the salt pans to go to schoolChildren rescued from labour and given an education have seen a dramatic change in their lives. Usha Rai reports after hearing the rescued children speak at the recent National Convention on Right to Education and Abolition of Child Labour More... Similar yet different: What dalit activists think about Barack ObamaAs Barack Obama is sworn in as the first black President of America on January 20, 2009, dalits in India debate what this means for marginalised communities in both countries More... Kosi tragedy poses serious livelihood challengeFive months after the Kosi deluge of August 2008, fields remain waterlogged, boats are still plying in paddy fields and thousands have lost their livelihoods as their cultivable lands have been permanently ruined. Around 500,000 people are believed to have migrated in search of livelihood More... The truth about farmer suicides in ChhattisgarhA group of citizen journalists in Chhattisgarh is finding out why four farmers in the state are committing suicide every day, and why the government continues to deny this. They found that in a single district, Durg, 11 farmers had committed suicide due to debt, while 52 labourers took their lives for “economic reasons” More... Industry and communities clash in JharkhandJharkhand went on an MoU-signing spree with industry a few years ago. Now these industries are on the back foot, facing strong opposition from local adivasis. Adivasis are not beggars, they say, rejecting the state R&R policy which requires corporations to give 1% of their annual profits to adivasi landowners whose lands have been acquired More... How Mundra became India's RotterdamAn account of how the Mundra multi-product SEZ has steamrolled ahead over the last few years, clearing forests and environmental hurdles along the way More... Breach of land laws in Jharkhand45 adivasi families were duped into selling their lands near Bokaro, Jharkhand, lured by promises of jobs in a garment factory that was never built. This is only one of thousands of cases of adivasi land alienation in Jharkhand, 100 years after the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act prohibited transfer of adivasi lands to non-adivasis More... Dark clouds over India’s sponge iron industryIndia has emerged as the world’s largest producer of sponge iron. But the cost of this spectacular growth is being borne by people living in areas that produce sponge iron, such as Bellary, Karnataka. Thick black smoke, contaminated and depleted water supply and falling agricultural yields are just some of the fallouts More... The loan waiver that failedThe much-hyped Rs 71,000 crore loan waiver has benefited only a small fraction of indebted farmers in Banda district of UP, finds Bharat Dogra. But it has set off a spiral of corruption and further indebtedness More... |
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