POSTCARDS: INDIA’S WOMEN SEAWEED DIVERS SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the challenges climate change is posing to the seaweed divers of southern India…
Call for prayer as southern India faces water shortages amid crippling drought
Christian organisation GFA World has called for Christians around the world to pray as a drought in southern India puts hundreds of millions at risk. GFA World, formerly known as Gospel for Asia, says that as many as 600 million people – almost half of India’s population – face acute water shortages with the city of […]
Take teen girls off night shift, Indian factories told
Thomson Reuters Foundation Clothing factories in southern India will have to stop putting teenage girls on night shifts under a new code of conduct that follows complaints of abuse of the largely female workforce. Workers aged 16 to 19 will also be allowed to take time off during their periods and no one will be […]