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International Women’s Day -2021
8 Mar 2021
International Women’s Day -2021 is very special for CASA. It’s a delight to announce, CASA with the support of the Church of Sweden has launched an exclusive Gender Desk to emphasise the importance of Gender Justice work. CASA has been working for Gender Justice all throughout and across our constituencies in all these years. Gender Desk comes to add vigour […]
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Overcoming Gender and Poverty Barriers
Poverty has been an inevitable problem in India since the beginning of time. The increasing problems of poverty caused by overpopulation and the unequal distribution of wealth among the people have led to a huge impact on the life of millions in the rural as well as the urban area. A person has to acquire […]
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Impact of Climate Change on Women
16 Jan 2021
Climate change is a prevailing problem globally whose hazardous repercussions extend beyond the environment. Shrinking glaciers, extinction of plants and animal species, mutation, rise in the Earth’s average temperature and triggered seasonal fluctuations, are some of the impacts of climate change that have already grabbed the headline. Certain early predictions pertaining to climate changes had […]
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KERALA HIT BY SEVERE FLOODS; CASA INDIA IS RESPONDING
17 Aug 2018
Kerala is reeling under heavy rains with floods and landslides putting lives at stand-still for many affected people. CASA India along with its state partners are providing relief in 3 districts of Kerala with dry ration and safe drinking water bottles to around 3000 families. #casaindiainaction The items have been chosen based on community recommendations YOUR SUPPORT WILL […]
Recurrent Assam Floods: Urgent Need For Help
8 Aug 2018
The second wave of flash floods in August halted Assam affecting over one lakh people with many taking refuge in relief camps. As many as 46 people lost their lives to the recurrent floods. The worst affected is Golaghat district in which 81,269 people remain in the dire need for relief assistance such as dry […]
MOMENTUM BUILDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
1 Aug 2018
In a momentum to effectively do away with the cruel tradition of child marriages in India, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) is set to move the cabinet to make child marriages ‘completely’ void. By Divya Bisht Intern – CASA Communications The question is – What prompts the ministry to banish this practice […]
NO WOMEN IN SABARIMALA
26 Jul 2018
Located in the Western Ghat ranges of Kerala, the Sabarimala temple is swarmed with thousands of male pilgrims every year – except women. By Nidhi Joshi Intern – CASA Communications The reason, the pilgrimage is propelling on the front page – the selective ban on the entrance of women of in the temple. The […]
HIMALAYAS’ OWN NATURE AND, GARBAGE TRAILS
19 Jul 2018
In the social media hegemony, every Instagram lover would want a photograph of them sitting on the snow tip of Triund with #hashtag #SippingTea; in return leaving tonnes of garbage on their way. By Shreyansh Shrivastav & Nidhi Joshi Interns – CASA Communications When hiker Sahil Khatri – now 29 – first set his journey […]
De/Criminalising Homosexuality: WHAT’S THE UPROAR ALL ABOUT?
13 Jul 2018
A five-judge constitutional bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra is currently hearing petitions challenging the most-talked about subject in the country right now – Section 377 – that criminalizes consensual intercourse between two adults of same sex. By Nidhi Joshi | Intern – CASA Communications The continuing uproar among the LGBTQ (Lesbian, […]
Special Edition | Women In Maharashtra Lived To Tell Their Tale
8 Jun 2018
The helpless farmers are out of solutions in Maharashtra. The drought has caused water scarcity to such an extent that women have to stand in long queues and travel long distances to gather portable water – leave alone the water needed for irrigation. Sometimes they are hit by heat strokes leading to fatal heath conditions. […]
‘You won’t understand how it feels to sleep peacefully, without bruises or broken bones’
26 Apr 2018
25-year-old tribal woman Sushma (name changed) held her hands tight every night, made sure her children slept by 11 PM and prepared herself for a battle which she knew she would lose. “Every night my husband would come home drunk. And when he is drunk, even a slightest mistake like less salt in food can make […]
Bonded Children Of Labour Minus Childhood
20 Dec 2017
CASA Reporter ISHA BANERJEE pens down intricate story of a 13-year-old boy from Andhra Pradesh who worked as bonded labour to pay-off her mother’s debt and the exploitation he faced every single day. What time you reached your work place? “They gave me a cellphone from which they used to call me every day at […]
