Rural areas have higher rates of violence against women than suburban and urban places. pocketlight/E+ via Getty Images I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my ...

Ruma Devi transformed traditional Rajasthani embroidery from an unpaid household skill into a source of livelihood for ...

In Devalgaon, a small village nestled in the Arjuni Morgaon taluka of this district, lives Smt. Anju Markand Kapgate, whose ...

Three ordinary women from Madhya Pradesh, supported by Transform Rural India, became the most powerful change-makers their villages had ever seen.

In Barmer, Ruma Devi’s work with GVCS helped women turn home embroidery into paid work and a bigger role in family decisions.

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

Across rural India, women leaders are transforming villages through sanitation reforms, waste management innovations and health initiatives. From Uttar Pradesh to Bihar, grassroots governance led by ...

Their meticulously embroidered caps are exported mainly to Oman, where the headgear is widely worn by men and recognised as ...

Across rural Bangladesh, women entrepreneurs are transforming adversity into opportunity, building successful businesses that strengthen families, communities, and the national economy ...

Cherish Watton-Colbrook works as an Archives Assistant for Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. Sixty years ago, on January 24, Britons gathered around their radios to listen to the sombre BBC ...

Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Development Unit and co-ordinator of the Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme (SWEEP), Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology It is ...