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Women’s Empowerment in the Era of Social Distancing

      Women’s Empowerment in the Era of Social Distancing Approximately 190 million women are employed in global supply chains, yet many are in precarious positions. Low literacy and tech literacy levels, among other factors, relegate women to lower paying jobs with minimal rights protections, making them particularly vulnerable . Since 2007, BSR collaborative initiative  HERproject  has sought to change this and empower women workers through workplace-based interventions on health, financial inclusion, and gender equality. Over the years, HERproject has worked in more than 620 workplaces across 14 countries. And yet in 2020—as COVID-19 and its economic impacts have exacerbated gender ineqalities —health and safety precautions prevented HERproject programs from continuing in the farms and factories where they have traditionally taken place. Against this backdrop, we developed HERessentials--a new HERproject program leveraging digital tools to reach workers, part...
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Mental Health

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  Mental health is a major concern worldwide and India is not far behind in sharing this. If we evaluate developments in the field of mental health, the pace appears to be slow. Dr. Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1954, had presciently declared that “without mental health there can be no true physical health. More than 60 years later, the scenario has not altered substantially. About 14% of the global burden of disease is attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders. The burden of mental disorders is likely to have been underestimated because of inadequate appreciation of the inter-play between mental illness and other health disorders. There remain considerable issues of priority-setting based on the burden of health problems and of addressing inequalities in relation to determinants and solutions for health problems. Progress in mental health service delivery has been slow in most low- and middle-income countries. Barriers in...
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WILDLIFE

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  Wildlife of India India  is home to a large variety of animals. It is a biodiversity hotspot with its various ecosystems ranging from the Himalayas in the north to the evergreen rain-forests in the south, the desert sands of the west to the marshy mangroves of the east. India, lying within the  Indomalayan realm , is home to about 7.6% of  mammal , 14.7% of  amphibian , 6% of  bird , 6.2% of  reptilian , and 6.0% of  flowering plant  species. India's forest lands nurture about 500 species of mammals and 2000+ bird species. This richness of Indian wildlife has been celebrated since time immemorial. Four of India’s national symbols consist India’s mammals. India is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world and contains three of the world’s 36  biodiversity hotspots  – the  Western Ghats , the  Eastern Himalayas , and the  Indo-Burma  hotspot.It is one of the seventeen  megadiverse countries . The ...
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