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Climate change drove heat in the city to a record-breaking 48C (118F) in 2016. While traditional insurance can take months to pay, with so-called "parametric" insurance there is no need to prove losses. At annual climate talks in Egypt last year, nonprofits urged richer nations to help finance parametric insurance as a way of compensating victims of worsening weather extremes. At the moment, insurance schemes in the developing world are largely subsidized by nonprofit groups, national governments, or wealthy countries. Insurance payouts allow them to buy things like gloves to protect their hands from scorching hot metal tools, or fans to stay cool and avoid heat exhaustion.

☆ India's rural women are 'bearing the brunt' of climate shocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Sumathi Bala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

India's rural women are bearing the brunt of climate related shocks like severe drought and extreme weather events, Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesIndia's rural women are bearing the brunt of climate related shocks like severe drought and extreme weather events, which are drastically affecting their daily livelihoods. The climate fund will allow women and communities to fight climate change and help provide new livelihood resources and education, said Clinton. Having access to clean water makes a huge difference in tackling the overall health issues for rural women, she added. In the latest economic survey released in February, the government said rural women were increasingly participating in economic activity. Government schemes and policies have helped rural women, said Akanksha Khullar, a visiting fellow with the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.

☆ Ela Bhatt, Organizer of India’s Women Workers, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ela Bhatt was a lawyer for an Indian textile union in the early 1970s when she decided to help other types of workers, ones who were harder to organize and often barely noticed: women balancing heavy loads of fabric, often perched precariously atop their heads, to make deliveries to markets. She founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association, known as SEWA, in 1972 in her hometown of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat. It became one of the country’s strongest advocates for India’s millions of women working informally in many kinds of low-paid positions, including maids, vegetable sellers, street food vendors, seamstresses and cigarette rollers. They often kept their families afloat by patching together work of all kinds—yet weren’t even recognized as workers in India’s official census data.

☆ Execuții, violuri, jafuri. În Franța a fost lansată o anchetă despre „atrocitățile mercenarilor ruși” din Republica Centrafricană
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-16 | by ( Daniela Calmis | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +20 min

Publicația relatează despre trei grupări rusești — Grupul Wagner, cunoscut și sub denumirea de PMC Wagner, precum și despre „sateliții” acestuia. În plus, în luna martie RFI a realizat un interviu cu ambasadorul rus în Republica Centrafricană sub titlul „Francois Bozize este un criminal care ar trebui arestat”. În Bangui, capitala Republicii Centrafricane, „prezența mercenarilor ruși și atrocitățile de care sunt acuzați sunt subiecte despre care se vorbește în șoaptă, privat și sub anonimat”. „În această zi, rolul decisiv a fost jucat de „instructorii ruși”, despre care se spune că nu au fost chemați să lupte”. Și a fost pierdut”.

Persons: Wagner, PMC Wagner, Francois Bozize, Orhan Dzhemal, Kirill Radchenko, Alexandr Rastorguev, FLORENT, Marta, Marta ., ADRIENNE SURPRENANT, Gabriela, Bozize, Wagner PMC, Valery Zakharov, Valery Zaharov, Serghei Vershinin, ONU ., P . P . S ., Roland Marchal, Туадера Organizations: RFI, ONU, Ambasada, Securitate, East News, Națiunilor Unite, Lobaye, Amnesty International, S, Invest, ONU . RFI, ЧВК, Вагнера, МИНУСКИ, ООН Locations: Republica Centrafricană, Africa, Rusiei, Rusia, ., rus, Bangui, Republicii Centrafricane, Sewa, East, Republica Centrafricana, Bambari, Grimari, ONU, Bossangoa, Statele Unite, Moscova, Mankeur, France, Бомбари, ЦАР, Россия

☆ India, îngenuncheată de pandemie. Morții de COVID sunt incinerați în masă în crematorii improvizate (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-26 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Sistemul sanitar din India este depășit, în timp ce cazurile de COVID cresc în continuare. Spitalele sunt pline până la refuz, iar crematoriile improvizate au ajuns să ardă cadavrele persoanelor decedate de COVID în masă, transmite BBC. Copiii care aveau 5 ani, 15 ani, 25 de ani au fost incinerați. Este greu de trăit așa ceva”, a spus pentru Reuters Singh Shunty, cu ochii în lacrimi. Vineri, India a raportat 332.730 de cazuri noi de coronavirus, stabilind un record mondial pentru a doua zi consecutivă.

Persons: Jitender Singh, Sewa Dal, Reuters Organizations: BBC Locations: India, Delhi

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