Health and Hygiene
Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.
पश्चिमी हिमालय के 25 संगठनों ने सामाजिक और पारिस्थितिकी मुद्दों के लिए मिलकर काम करने का संकल्प लिया (In Hindi)
बातचीत और चर्चा में सतत विकास मॉडल, सामुदायिक संरक्षित क्षेत्र और पश्चिमी हिमालय में मानव-वन्यजीव संघर्ष, लिंग समावेशन, भूमि कानून और पर्यटन सहित आम चुनौतियों सहित ‘विकल्पों’ के उदाहरण साझा करना शामिल था।
25 Organisations across the Western Himalayas Resolve to Work Together for Social and Ecological Issues
Such gatherings serve as a platform for diverse organisations to come together, reflect on the values that drive their work, and chart pathways for collective transformational change in the Himalayas.
Statement Condemning Detention of Ladakhi Padyatris (marchers) at Singhu Border
We demand immediate release of all marchers, withdrawal of prohibitory orders and opening up of a genuinely sensitive dialogue with the Ladakh climate marchers.
The US took decades to act against these toxic chemicals. India should not wait
“From dump sites to groundwater, cookware to wastewater, these persistent chemicals have infiltrated every facet of the surroundings,” an IIT Madras study stated.
एकल महिलाओं को स्वावलंबी बनाने की पहल (in Hindi)
महिलाओं के लिए ऐसा मंच उपलब्ध कराना जिसमें वे एक साथ आ सकें, उनका दुख-दर्द बांट सकें, एक दूसरे से जुड़ सकें, खुलकर बात कर सकें और आपस में अनुभव साझा कर सकें।
Farmers pin hopes on new agricultural calendar to weather climate variabilities
Wayanad farmers create a new agricultural calendar harnessing traditional farming knowledge in a bid to adapt to climate change.
India’s 2024 Election Results Should Spur a Renewed Movement Towards Justice, Equity, and Sustainability
From the perspective of the VSGA, which represent a wide section of the country’s regions and peoples, these results are a sign that Indian democracy is alive, kicking and maturing.
अच्छी सेहत के लिए साइकिल जरूरी (In Hindi)
साइकिल एक बहु उपयोगी वाहन है। इसकी उपयोगिता कई रचनात्मक कामों में भी सामने आती रही है।
Re-envisioning Riverscapes and Urban Riverfronts in India: Toward Ecological and Social Harmony
Rights of Nature is emerging as a governance approach for protecting our ecosystems and their inhabitants.