#rural workers

[indizombie]

No labour budget has been approved for West Bengal for 2023-24 under MGNREGS, keeping workers in a state of constant worry about their survival. Many have not received their wages due from 2021. Some have joined ongoing protests in New Delhi that began in February 2023, demanding their dues and rights for guaranteed work. MGNREGS, introduced in 2005, has served as a lifeline for rural workers whose livelihood entirely depend on it. Those registered can demand up to 100 days’ work with an average income of Rs 213 daily. The lack of funds have resulted in a food crisis for many in the state.

Himanshu Nitnaware, ‘Surviving on fish from gutter, rice: West Bengal workers bear brunt of Central freeze on MGNREGA funds’, Down To Earth

[indizombie]

As per the Act, the workers should get work as demanded, said activist Nikhil Dey. “Rural workers registered under the scheme are mandated to get work under Article 21 of the Constitution. The Article recognises the right to work as a fundamental right, which is being violated daily. These workers have the right to seek work for 100 days and earn a dignified income,” said Dey. The law also enables these workers to seek unemployment allowance and compensation for delayed wages for each passing day without work. “The central government is not following the rules, which is creating a crisis across the state and the country,” he added.

Himanshu Nitnaware, ‘Surviving on fish from gutter, rice: West Bengal workers bear brunt of Central freeze on MGNREGA funds’, Down To Earth

[bharatintelligence]

Making farm work reliable and rural livelihoods stronger.

[ruralwomenday]

2023 International Rural Women's Day Commemoration Seminar.

According to the latest FAO report, women play a crucial role in agricultural and non-agricultural activities, which emerge as agrifood systems develop and economies change. There, women work as farmers, retailers, wage laborers, entrepreneurs, among other tasks. However, gender inequalities in agrifood systems cause women to be disproportionately affected by food and nutritional insecurity, monetary and time poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In view of this situation, the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in the framework of the Commemoration of the International Day of Rural Women and the strengthening of its program for the economic empowerment of this group, invites counterparts from government, civil society, academia, private sector and UN agencies to discuss and propose strategies for closing gender gaps in agrifood systems, during a seminar to be held in hybrid format on October 10, 2023, in Santiago, Chile.

Objectives

The seminar will seek to provide a regional overview of the advances and challenges that promote or obstruct the economic empowerment of rural women in all their diversity, and will make recommendations to strengthen the economic empowerment program for rural women and generate inputs for the FAO Regional Conference -LARC 38, the Regional Conference of ECLAC-UNWomen, among other initiatives within the framework of the rural women's agenda in the region.

FAO Américas

International Rural Women's Day Commemoration Seminar

During the seminar, examples of legislation, policies and programs will be presented with a focus on what has worked and specific recommendations will be shared on how to make more and better interventions with and for rural women. From a vision of collective action, the seminar will seek to generate alliances and identify strategies and interventions with scalability potential, based on the agenda of rural women in the region, to accelerate their economic, social and political empowerment.

Methodology

The Seminar will begin with welcoming remarks by FAO, followed by thematic talks that will delve into the central aspects of sustainable rural development from a transformative gender equality approach, followed by a space for guided reflection, and ending with a session of agreements and closing. The interventions will incorporate success stories and review the strategies mobilized to bring about the necessary change towards an egalitarian welfare state.

The seminar will be simultaneously interpreted from Spanish into English and Portuguese.

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Set up a mechanism to promote and defend human rights of Rural workers.

Finally the United Nations Human Rights Council⁩ set up a mechanism to promote and defend human rights of peasants, fishers, Rural Workers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, Rural Women and all the rural world. The Working Group will be elected in March. International Day of Rural Women

Victory! UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution to Advance Peasants' Rights

An overwhelming majority of member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council have taken a historic step by voting in favor of a res

[risinginvestor-blog]

Brazil workers protest against pension reform, disrupt transport - Rising Investor

(Reuters) – Brazilian civil servants, rural workers and labor confederations staged nationwide demonstrations on Wednesday against President Michel Temer’s pension reform plan, with hundreds of protesters occupying the premises of the finance ministry in the capital Brasilia. Bus and subway services were partially disrupted in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the country’s most populous …

[heaveninawildflower]

Study of Rural Workers (two boys).

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative (circa 1870) by Unidentified artist, French

Published by Auguste Giraudon

Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.

[heaveninawildflower]

Study of Rural Workers (shepherdess).

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative (circa 1870) by Unidentified artist, French

Published by Auguste Giraudon

Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.