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Community-based teams, in collaboration with the Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD), organized an awareness campaign at Ishaneswar Bhubaneswar to educate women informal workers on workplace safety. The campaign sought to highlight the provisions for urban local
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Community-based teams in Amritsar have set up a help desk at Bangla Basti to help informal workers' access vital information and support to secure rights and entitlements. In the coming days, the teams will expand this effort by setting up help desks linked with Worker
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@ActionAidIndia
ActionAid Association
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Community-based teams, in collaboration with the Centre for Child and Women Development (CCWD), organized an awareness campaign at Transit Bhubaneswar to educate women informal workers on workplace safety. The campaign sought to highlight the provisions for urban local governance
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This Mandela Day, we honour a legacy built on compassion and courage. True peace means ensuring everyone has a place to grow, to belong, and to flourish. Let us keep building that world together. #Peace #NelsonMandela #nelsonmandelainternationalday
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Join us for the launch of "Building People’s Power" – a master class series for emerging leaders and movement actors!.The first session focuses on Social Movements & Organizing, with expert facilitators Jaye Gaskiya (Nigeria) and Nalishebo Sinyama (Zambia). Built on the pillars
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With over 65% of its population below the age of 35, India has a unique opportunity to drive economic growth through a large, young workforce. However, this advantage can only be harnessed if young people are equipped with relevant skills that match evolving needs. Skill training
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Congratulations to Ms. Varsha Deshpande on receiving the 2025 UN Population Award for her outstanding work in advancing gender equality and reproductive rights. At ActionAid Association, we are proud and honoured to have worked with Ms. Deshpande on critical issues including the
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Community-based teams organised an awareness meeting on the POSH Act that protect women from sexual harassment at the workplace. Around 800 women workers from 10 villages in Bhiwani district, Haryana participated, among them many engaged in construction work and MGNREGA. This
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When we are in despair, hope is not mere wishful thinking but a survival instinct, that offers meaning in suffering and lights even the darkest moments with the possibility of renewal. While fear, anger, or grief can exhaust the spirit, hope persists, however faintly, as a reason
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Peace is the first step toward building justice, and lasting peace rests on justice’s firm foundations. We remain sustained by the hope that a fairer world is always possible. #InternationalDayOfHope
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Workplace sexual harassment remains a daily, devastating reality for India’s women workers especially in the informal sector. Local Complaints Committees (LCCs) exist on paper but remain inaccessible and unknown to those who need them most. It’s time to strengthen, activate, and
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Despite its impressive advances, artificial intelligence has, to date, only been able to augment human intelligence, not replace it. AI excels in narrow domains, but human intelligence remains essential for creativity, ethics, empathy and general problem-solving. In the poem “I
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Community-based teams are reaching out to women workers in multiple contexts in Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh. Through discussions and support, and the campaign booklet on the provisions of the POSH Act, colleagues are seeking to arm informal women workers with awareness of the
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RT @down2earthindia: World Rural Development Day: Why the future depends on revitalising village economies, writes @sndeep . .
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Sustainable rural development is not just an option it is essential. It is key to reducing poverty, ensuring food security, conserving natural resources, building resilience to climate change, and achieving gender equality. In short, the well-being of people. Without rural
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Upakuliya Primary Matsyajeebi Samabay Samity Limited, a cooperative of 760 fish farmers of whom 392 are women based in Desapran Block of East Medinipur, West Bengal, is a shining example of collective progress. Began with just 36 fish farmers on 25th March 2023 has now grown into
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ActionAid Association
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Basant Women Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) in Bundelkhand, where over 2,000 women from marginalized communities have come together to build sustainable livelihoods through collective power. Through activities like seed production, vermicomposting, poultry, and nutrition
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ActionAid Association
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Kudumbashree – Kerala’s flagship cooperative movement epitomises transformational potential of feminist solidarity economies. Over the years it has evolved into a movement with more than 4.6 million participants, 1.5 million micro-enterprises, and a turnover of more than ₹100
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In Nalanda, Bihar, a quiet revolution is unfolding—led by women, for women. For over a decade, Nav Bihar Samaj Kalyan Pratisthan Kendra (NBSKPK), with support from ActionAid Association, has empowered over 12,000 families across 80 villages and 12 panchayats, building a movement
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Towards a Feminist Solidarity Economy”, cooperatives are member-owned, democratically governed organizations that provide economic and social support to communities, especially women. They focus on collective well-being, shared decision-making, and sustainable livelihoods rather
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