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Migration
Migrant workers and human rights
Posted on 09 May, 2021 10:49 AMIndia was one of the leading countries to swiftly implement the initial lockdown in March 2020 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, but still, the lockdown failed and within a few months, it joined the list of countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic.
![Need to introduce a new pandemic policy that is more humane, adaptive, and inclusive in nature (Image: Rajesh Balouria, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/lockdown.jpg?itok=EDzugAQn)
Migrant workers stranded yet again
Posted on 06 May, 2021 08:28 PMAs the death toll and positivity rate in the wake of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic stays alarmingly high, lockdowns and other restrictions have been instituted in many parts of the country.
![Jeevan Rath 2.0 helped people get back home in June 2020. Migrants from Chhattisgarh were stuck in Pune when CYDA came in contact with them and arranged their transportation and food through support of Jeevan Rath and SwissAid. (Image: Maha C19 PECONet Collaborative/IWP Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/jeevan-rath.jpg?itok=0aohK5Y4)
Responding to the second wave of COVID-19 in rural India
Posted on 06 May, 2021 11:52 AMAs healthcare systems in urban cities across India grapple with the second wave of COVID-19, smaller towns and v
![As healthcare systems in urban cities across India grapple with the second wave of COVID-19, smaller towns and villages too are facing devastating consequences. (Image: ©Gates Archive/Saumya Khandelwa)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-05/rcrc.jpg?itok=v8PqMBEJ)
Support migrant workers through an inclusive recovery process: Rozgaar survey report
Posted on 20 Apr, 2021 03:39 PMA recent study on the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India indicates that almost 75% of the surveyed workers did not have any source of income after the lockdown and almost 45% reported difficulty due to food shortages.
![Workers apprehensive of migrating back to destination states to look for work (Image: ILO Asia-Pacific)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/ILO.jpg?itok=Qv242ywd)
Climate-induced migration surges in the Indian sub-continent
Posted on 15 Apr, 2021 02:11 PMClimate change-related stressors that disrupt people’s lives to a large e
![The monsoon rains flooded the plots of land beside the Yamuna river in Delhi, displacing families from their vegetable patches. (Image: Michael Foley; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/flood-displaced.jpg?itok=ABwbMdpN)
Budget 2021: MGNREGA allocation insufficient
Posted on 13 Feb, 2021 10:52 AMThe pandemic and the inadequate measures to contain it have created a multidimensional crisis – economic, nutritional and in the field of education -- in addition to the original, and still ongoing health crisis.
![Migrant workers are left ailing both in cities and in villages, with no recourse or security. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Nregs.jpg?itok=8lc5AWH1)
How forest-dwelling communities are braving the pandemic
Posted on 04 Oct, 2020 02:59 PMThe pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalised communities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress. While vulnerabilities, atrocities and injustices faced by forest communities due to forest, conservation and economic policies have increased d
![The non timber forest products collection season, which is mainly in the months of April to June coincided exactly with the lockdown (Image: CIFOR, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women-harvesting-lemongrass.jpg?itok=etnfztGV)
Pandemic impacts on women – Stories of survival
Posted on 30 Sep, 2020 09:52 AMThe pandemic has wrought havoc on the entire world. Pessimism, suffering, unemployment, hunger and poverty resound in all corners. To survive is a physical, mental and financial battle. And every family and individual has an anecdote to narrate that speaks volumes about their combat strategy, losses and victories.
![Gender dimensions of the pandemic (Image: Gby Atee)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/1_8.jpg?itok=IZZdQyzo)
Gendered impacts of COVID-19
Posted on 20 Sep, 2020 09:15 PMCOVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the contemporary era demonstrating our fragility and has laid bare severe and systemic inequalities at all levels. It provides several lessons in the conduct of all aspects of human personality, professional, societal, and institutional lives globally.
![The time-use survey indicates that women are now spending more time on unpaid domestic and care work (Image: Sunita, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rural-woman-sunita-pixabay.jpg?itok=I04ZKPQv)
Agriculture and food security challenges amid Covid-19
Posted on 09 Sep, 2020 03:32 PMIndia has seen large scale rural-urban migration of people trying to escape rural distress in the last few decades.
![Women farmers produce vegetables through innovative farming practices in Banka, Bihar. They can sell their produce at regional markets, and earn a better income for their families. (Image: USAID, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_4.jpg?itok=beHGsoUt)