sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
Rising Temperatures, Rising Inequalities: How a New Insurance Protects India’s Poorest Women By Manipadma Jena Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --
For streetside sellers of artificial jewelry and for recyclers toiling under the increasingly torrid temperatures caused by climate change, innovative insurance means not all is lost when their wares are ruined or it is too hot to work. But is this a panacea or an opportunity for the authorities to ignore their responsibilities to the poorest workers of India?
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/06/rising-temperatures-rising-inequalities-how-a-new-insurance-protects-indias-poorest-women/
BHUBANESWAR/AHMEDABAD, India, Jun 26 2025 (IPS) - As Deviben Dhaundhaliya, 45, a streetside seller of artificial jewelry, waits for her husband Devabhai to arrive and help her shift their iron-frame mobile ‘shop’ to the Bhadra Fort open-air marketplace in Ahmedabad city, she tells of how “as heat increased, my wares started melting under the direct exposure to the sun, or they got discolored.”
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