Victim of pandemic

Foresight and preparedness can protect the lives of crores of women, men and children avoid an impending humanitarian crisis. Women and children are on the fringes or out of the socioeconomic umbrella are the most vulnerable one. Grim economic conditions, hunger, low work opportunities, making them the easiest target for the organizing crime network of human trafficking. This will trigger decades of inter-generational bondage and wage –less labour. Hundreds and thousands of children will be enslaved; will be applied as a commodity to offset the manufacturing losses (increase profit margins) by cheap/child labour. A girl from a family which has lost its means of subsistence and survival is at the risk of commercial sexual exploitation. No more than ever the civil society collaboration is needed to tackle this problem. ·          At government, civil society (NGOs) or within in an individual capacity, ensure last mile delivery of child protection programs (education, nutrition, he

After much social, political, and economic fermentation and dramatic role of media on the top of grim; many are struggling for survival and almost everyone is adjusting to the new realities brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.  The new changes have wider influences; can be seen clearly from the workplace to the streets. This post discusses a few things, our team experienced during the relief work in Delhi. Patriarchy, Pandemic and Gender role flexibility Social stratification along gender lines, in which power is predominantly held by men, is common in Indian societies. Women’s formal engagement in the economy is often invisible in developing settings. In a family system, patriarchy means "rule of the father", where power is concentrated in the hands of father/ husband or adult men, designating females and children as subordinate. Traditional gender roles cast men as strong, decisive, rational, and protective while women are seen as emotional, irrational,