Reporter’s diary amid COVID-19: Reaching home

Down To Earth’s Vivek Mishra has walked from Delhi to Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh to capture the plight of workers returning home after …

COVID-19 a double whammy for India’s urban poor

There is the shock of the pandemic plus the loss of livelihood

Labour organisation report shows 150 million migrants in global workforce

Two main factors are driving migration at present—economic hardship and geopolitical crises leading to the lack of decent work

Women and capitalism

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Where does the world stand 4 months into COVID-19?

It has learnt at a deadly cost that inequality in development has the power to make a health emergency into a long-term problem  

पलायन की पीड़ा-2: खेतों में नहीं होती गुजर बसर लायक पैदावार

लॉकडाउन के बाद प्रवासी मजदूरों की वापसी ने देश के सामने एक सवाल खड़ा कर दिया है कि आखिर पलायन होता ही क्यों है? डाउन ...

Coronavirus: Chinese media reports drop in new cases, WHO dismisses any trend

Wuhan hospital director dies due to COVID-19 infection

आईएलओ रिपोर्ट में दिखी भारतीय महिलाओं की सच्चाई!

अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय श्रम संगठन द्बारा जारी रिपोर्ट में महिलाओं को केवल घरेलू कामकाज तक सीमित बताया गया है, लगभग यही स्थिति पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश की भी बताई ...

Crushing job: Study points out risks for migrant workers at stone quarries

National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj found significant child labour at quarries in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh

Farm income drops in 16 states and union territories

The national average income from cultivation increased by just 3.8 per cent between 2002-03 and 2012-13, when the overall farm sector grew by 3 …

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Losing proposition

Bamboo musings

Although termed "forest weed" or "the poor man's timber" bamboo's potential may satisfy modernity's growing needs

Healthy ruling

On the job

Literacy levels

Shelf life

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Children of a lesser god

COVID-19: Bihar profiles returned migrant workers for skills

The industry department has profiled skills of more than 80,000 migrant workers so far

Simply put: Guillotine loom

COVID-19: Unable to return home, Odisha migrant hangs self in Haryana

Gangadhar Biswal, from Kendrapara, was upset that he could not get back home from Yamunanagar due to the lockdown  

SC stays Odisha HC order on migrants; allows them to return

Returning migrants narrate tales of anguish and misery

India locked down, but challenges remain

As India entered a 21-day lockdown on March 25, 2020 in a bid to contain COVID-19 spread, thousands of daily wage labourers and migrant workers …

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Manual scavenging has gone underground in India: WHO

Most undesirable, high-risk jobs typically subcontracted to temporary, informal workers based on their caste, says new report