There are 7.14 Crore #SingleWomen in India as per #Census2011. These include unmarried, divorced, separated and widowed women and half widows.
Ensuring #HousingRights, maternal & natal property rights will help them in continuing their life with dignity #InternationalWidowsDay
“Single, Yes! but not Alone" Vaishali Yede, a farm widow in solidarity with other 4.5 lacs women like her @ National consultation on #SingleWomen & PropertyRights at Amravati, Nagpur on #InternationalWidowDay founded by Lord Raj Looma @TheLoombaFndtn
“When I got to know that there are about 4.5 lacs women like me, I decided to stand and take ahead the issues that I was facing, for all my sisters”, Vaishali Yede, a farm widow from Amravati @ActionAidIndia #InternationalWidowDay
On the occasion of #InternationalWidowsDay, over 1600 single women from 5 states gather today in Amravati in a national convention organised by @ActionAidIndia, to discuss their issues and put together their charter
On the eve of #InternationalWidowDay ratified by UN, courtesy Lord Raj Looma @TheLoombaFndtn, @ActionAidIndia's National consultation on 'Single women&their Property Rights' is going on @ Amravati,Nagpur. More than1600 #SingleWomen &widows from 5states have been participating
"Household remains the point of payment for many migrant workers like brick kilns in hyderabad nd punjab-this leads to increased #ChildLabour"-Dr.Ranabir Samaddar, CalcuttaResearchGroup at Round Table #MigrantWorkersWelfare@ActionAidIndia @RLS_South_Asia @sndeep @Preksha54417957
"The current form of capitalism creates and survives on a perennial supply of migrant workers." - Prof. Praveen Jha at the three-day roundtable conference on Improving Conditions of Work & Living for Circular Migrants in India organised in Delhi. #WorkersSolidarityNetwork
Prof. Praveen Jha speaks on Finance Capital & Migrant Labour at the roundtable conference on Improving Conditions of Work & Living for Circular Migrants in India organised in Delhi by @ActionAidIndia with Workers Solidarity Network & @CiRiC_India with support from @RLS_South_Asia
@ActionAidIndia would like to thank @theochretree for coming forward to support construction of a checkdam in this drought prone Sangi village in #Rewa district. This will recharge 10handpumps 8 wells& provide drinking water to 263 dalit,adivasi families. @C9Khalid@sndeep