1. What is Women Right?

Women rights are privileges and freedoms stated for women and girls of all ages in many countries. The idea behind this is to provide equal rights to women same as men. In few places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others places they may be unnoticed or concealed. They vary from broader ideas of human rights, through claims of an inbuilt past and conventional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls in favor of men and boys. The origin of the women’s rights movement can be connected to the abolitionist movement, to end slavery.

Discrimination towards women and the harassment on women has been increasing since many years in many countries. Position of women both in their maternal homes and matrimonial homes is restricted, that in turn gives the label for male domination. Many girls and women are being punished severely for inter-religious or inter-caste relationships, mainly in the rural and remote villages. This is spreading in towns and cities as well. The position of women is bordered by marriage and fertility, both in their families and in the society. Role of women continues to be terrible in the country resulting in many maternal deaths, one in every seven minutes.

2. Why women need equal rights?

Thousands of women and girls are killed by members of their own families every year, in order to restore ‘family honor’. Ultimately, these women are becoming victims of conduct which ignore killing women and girls, as a punishment for breaking society norms of accepted behavior. With limited ease of understanding and restrictions, women in remote and rural areas, tend to depend on their husbands, for all their health care needs, with high levels of trust and confidence.

This is the reason why it is very important that all health care needs must be made accessible to these education-deprived, poor women. The governments of all the countries are struggling to provide equal rights to each and every woman in the country. People all over the world say that they definitely support equal rights for men and women, but most of them still believe that men should get more preference when it comes to good jobs, higher education or even in some cases, the simple right to work outside the home.

In spite of many achievements by women, many issues still exist in all areas of life, ranging from the cultural, political to the economic. Women often work more than men, but still they are paid less than men. Gender discrimination has been affecting girls and women throughout their lifetime and women and girls are often are the ones that suffer the most poverty. Many of them think that women’s right is only an issue for some countries where they consider their Religion as law and some of them still think it is not at all an issue to be considered.

Gender equality will in turn support the child and society development. Giving equal right and respect to women will also help in decreasing the number of girl child deaths. In spite of many huge achievements that have been made in supporting equal rights for women in past decades, there is still much to be done when it comes to equality for women. This is the reason why it is very important to support women’s rights and gender equality.

Women need their rights to be assured by law because women need to be solid and backed-up by law. Women require as much power and support from the law, so as to protect themselves from the attacks and discrimination that has been done to women since many decades.

There is no world without women and no one can imagine this world without a women. Women can’t speak for themselves and they require somebody who can speak for them so that it will help them a lot to be protected by Law. Whenever they are abused, they can be able to report the matter, when they know action is going to be taken. It is very important and it’s the time to support equal rights for men and women and that is what the Equal Rights Amendment is all about. The amendment says that the equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by any State on account of sex.

3. What are the rights that should be given to women?

Women rights amendment has stated many rights to woman against men, but many of them are still pending due to lot of issues. International women’s day and the Women Equality day are being celebrated in many countries so as to give freedom for women and also to promote the rights that have been given to them. Only some of them are being implemented partially and not fully. General issues connected with ideas of women rights include:

• Physical honesty and independence
• Right to vote
• Right to hold public office
• Right to work
• Right to fair wages or equal pay
• Right to own property
• Right to education
• Right to serve in the military or be recruited
• Right to enter into legal contracts
• And right to have marital, parental and religious rights.

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Biodiversity

“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity”-E. O. Wilson

 Biodiversity is defined as the totality of genes, species and ecosystems of a region. Biological diversity in short known as biodiversity is a term that is used to describe variety of life found on earth and all the natural processes. These processes include ecosystem, genetic and cultural diversity and also their connection with all the species. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms and is a measure of the health of ecosystems. The species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, the enormous diversity of genes in these species, the different ecosystems on the planet, such as deserts, rainforests and coral reefs are all part of a biologically diverse Earth. There are many different aspects of biodiversity and all of them have influence on each other in one or the other way. Biodiversity is a part of the climate and is very useful in day-to-day life. As the release of greenhouse gases in to the atmosphere is causing climate change, this climate change is a major threat to biodiversity.

Biodiversity has been identified at three levels and they are:

• Species diversity: It is the number of various species represented in a collection of datasets. Diversity of these species is incredible and it is estimated that around 1.7 millions of species have been discovered on earth. This consists of two components i.e. species richness and species evenness. Species richness is the count of species and species evenness measures how equal the abundances of the species are.

• Ecosystem diversity: It refers to the diversity of a place at the level of ecosystems. It can also be referred as the variety of ecosystems present in the biosphere.

• Genetic diversity: It refers to the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic species. It provides a way to human beings to adapt to changing environments. It is important for group of plants and animals, including people, to have genetic diversity.

2. What is the importance of Biodiversity?

Biodiversity resources are like the pillars for building civilizations. It forms the web of life of which we are an integral part and we also totally depend on it. Biodiversity offers a huge amount of goods and services that maintain our lives. Protecting biodiversity is very important as it supports many industries like agriculture, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, horticulture, construction and waste treatment. It is the biodiversity on Earth that allows animals, plants and humans to share the planet- if one species is destroyed, several, maybe even hundreds more, may follow. It is also important because few organisms have economic value like rainforest plants are used to prepare medicine, they have value to the ecosystem, and they are a source of natural beauty and recreation.

40% percent of world’s economy and up to 80% of the poor needs are derived from biological resources. If the diversity is rich, then the opportunity for medical discoveries and economic development will also be great. It improves the ecosystem productivity like huge variety of species leads to larger variety of crops. If the ecosystem is healthy, then it can easily withstand and recover from variety of disasters.

• The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis by green plants.

• More than 90 percent of the calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species.

• Almost 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals, and many more are derived from these sources.

3. What are the benefits of Biodiversity?

 

Biodiversity increases the ecosystem productivity. It is very useful for mankind and there are many benefits of this biodiversity.

Some of the major benefits of biodiversity are as follows:

• Plenty of food, fuel and fiber provision
• Shelter provision and building materials
• Water and air purification
• Detoxification and moderation of wastes
• Earth’s climate will be stabilized and moderated
• Moderation of floods, droughts, temperature extremes and the forces of wind
• Soil fertility generation and renewal including nutrient cycling
• Plants pollination including several crops
• Pest and disease control
• Maintenance of genetic resources as key inputs to crop varieties and livestock breeds, medicines, and other products
• Cultural and aesthetic benefits
• Many recreational areas benefit from a healthy ecosystem, which promotes tourism.

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Spark Of The Corporate

                                        

                                         Adi Godrej

                                                                 Chairman,

                                                            Godrej Industries

Not everyone gets the opportunity to explore all the niceties of the world; do what one likes to do and, yet, be very truly successful in life - both family and business. And, of those who are blessed - born with the so-called silver spoon in their mouth - the number of people who make the most of it is infinitesimal. But then, opportunity has in it nested challenges of myriad shades. Seemingly non-existent challenges show themselves up and test one to the core. That is where the good heirs are called upon to bring forth their strength of character and show their mettle to come good in this stern test of life. Mr. Adi Godrej, the Chairman of Godrej Industries, is one such beacon of the Godrej family who has lead this century-old consumer goods conglomerate into becoming one of the most trusted and successful brands in the country.

Early Days Born into a highly successful industrialist family, on April 3, 1942, in Mumbai, meant that Mr. Godrej had best that life could offer, and could, therefore, get a first-hand taste of what success, discipline and hard work signified at a very early age. Even as his father, Burjorji Godrej, went chipping away on the path of the company's success, his mother, Jai Godrej - a school teacher by profession- did not let her son get carried away by all this and ensured that his feet were firmly rooted to the ground, imbibing in him the virtues of hard work, discipline, and humility. So, beginning with such firm footings amidst fertile surroundings did young Adi Godrej aspire to add wings to his future by going abroad to pursue higher studies at the very tender age of 17 years. So far as is known, although he had contemplated on enrolling for mechanical engineering at Cambridge, he eventually completed both his Bachelors (MIT) and Masters (Sloan School of Management) in management from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Having brushed shoulders with the best of talents from around the world, and gained precious insights into business management from people of diverse perspectives, he returned to India and joined the family business. Birth of the Spark Up until Adi Godrej joined the family business, it comprised only the manufacturing of locks, safes, and soaps. This presented the freshly inducted Adi Godrej with the opportunity to put to use all the knowledge he had acquired and, all the insights he had had from his association with MIT and the interaction therein. Bringing in a fresh approach to the way the business was run while preserving the basic fiber of the group, had long been fomenting in his mind, almost since the time he was at MIT. He began with all the energy and enthusiasm of youth to foster these changes in a subtle but effective way. He made the management structure more systematic and modernized and initiated the process of improving the standards of the group's offerings. One of other chief drivers of this change brought about by Adi Godrej was inducting CEOs from outside the family to head the various business arms of the family, while always ensuring that the incumbents appreciated and put into practice the basic hallmarks of quality and value of Godrej family business. Consequently, by the turn of millennium, the Group completed a 10-year restructuring process through which each business became a stand-alone company with a CEO/COO from outside the Godrej family. Subsequently, the non-family workers in the various group firms are governed by an exhaustive succession planning exercise put in place to meet the both planned as well as contingent succession. It was with his vision and leadership that the group was able to improve efficiency, sustain very high quality standards and also create a niche for itself, on way to scaling unprecedented heights of success, even when faced with many hurdles and constraints - mostly owing to the controlled economy that India was. The change in guard, fresh approach, and the new methods adopted by the company stood it in good stead when the country, eventually, broke the shackles of being a closed / controlled economy and entered the era of a globalization - presenting businesses with opportunities and challenges anew. Mr. Godrej initiated new processes and practices at a time when businesses were averse to change - perceiving them to be disruptive and threatening even. But he opted to move away from this so-called conventional wisdom and dared to bring about the changes, ever-so-subtly. His fresh outlook coupled with a shrewd sense of business also enabled him to create an emotional connect of both his as well as the group's brand persona with the people by maintaining the traditional middle-class core values that had helped catapult the company to the peak in the first place. It is not surprising then that he has been chiefly responsible for the shaping and successful implementation of scores of a long-term strategy of many entities both within the group and without, by laying great emphasis on value creation. The Journey Under his astute leadership and guidance the group went from strength to strength over the last five decades, and touching the lives of about 400 million Indians every day while also spreading its operations to 60 countries along the way. The net worth of conglomerate has risen to Rs.7,500 Crore, encompassing diversified businesses such as consumer products, durables, chemicals, agri products, retailing, real estate, locks and safes, office furniture, precision equipment, machine tools, healthcare, interior solutions, office equipment, food-processing, security, materials handling and industrial storage solutions, construction and information technology, etc. No wonder then, that he heads many companies and organizations, in one capacity or the other, that include Indian companies like Godrej Industries, Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej Properties as well as international companies such as Keyline Brands U.K and Rapidol South Africa. In his capacity as Chairman of Godrej Industries, he also presides over the Group's joint venture company Godrej Hershey. He is also the Chairman of The Board of Trustees of the Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize Fund. Mr. Godrej has played an important role in the development of a variety of industries since the time of his inception into the family business, by leading key organizations of trade and commerce in various capacities such as the (former) Chairman and President of the Indian Soap & Toiletries Makers' Association, the Central Organization for Oil Industry and Trade, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India, the Compound Livestock Feeds Manufacturers' Association, the Indo-American Society and as member of the Governing Board of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. Mr. Godrej is considered to be one of the icons of the Indian Industry and, his vision and wisdom are much acknowledged by both the business fraternity as well as the group's consumer base. Therefore, it came as no surprise when he was elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2012-13. In other spheres of life Management Education He has actively participated in imparting management education through his various associations such as (former) Chairman of the Governing Council of the Narsee Monjee institute of Management Education, (former) Member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Wharton Asian Executive Board. That besides, he has also been a member of the "Tau Beta Pi" as well as the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB). Open Forum He may be amongst one of the richest Indians with a personal net worth of $5.2 billion, born into a highly respected and successful business family, but Mr. Adi Godrej does not fail to drive the point home that by being born rich does not automatically bring professionalism, and stresses the significant role of professionals in family-owned business. Not only that, he also firmly believes in the power, as indeed the vision, of youth that is built upon good education, and is always open to ideas put forth by youth. That is perhaps the reason why he has institutionalized in the company an event called the Chairman's Tea where bright young managers are called to discuss with him the issues before the company, and find ways to address them. Personal Life Mr. Adi Godrej is married to Parmeshwar Godrej; the couple has three children, and two grand children. As per the practice followed, the heirs-apparent were inducted into the family business after having met the necessary and sufficient conditions for succession - proper education, grooming, and rigorous training with other managers at the work place. While the eldest daughter, Tanya, is the Executive President (Marketing) of Godrej Industries Ltd, their second daughter, Nisa, and son, Pirojsha, have also joined the family business after having completed their management education abroad.

More about Adi Godrej Nationality Indian Born April 3,1942 Age 70 Education Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Residence Mumbai, India Marital Status Married Children Three

For his contribution to Indian industry, Mr. Adi Godrej has been the recipient of several awards and recognitions including the Rajiv Gandhi Award (2002). The group itself is a pioneer in many aspects of their business - it being the first to introduce in India lock with lever technology as also India's first indigenous typewriter, making the first Indian safe, made soap using vegetable oil, etc., and has, under his able leadership and guidance, been the recipient of scores of industry acknowledged awards and honors such as Being ranked as the 14th "Best company to work for" Being ranked as the 6th "ET-Hewitt Best Employers of India" "Corporate Citizen of the Year" given by the Economic Times The group's flagship brands: Cinthol, Good Night, and Ezee were selected as Superbrands by the "Superbrands Council" while the group itself was selected as the Business Superbrand It also was given the "best managed workforce Award" by Hewitt Associates and CNBC-TV18, in addition to being ranked at the 22nd position in the "Brand Trust Report" published by the Brand Trust Advisory

Philanthropy Under Mr. Adi Godrej's leadership, the group is also involved in philanthropic activities. Godrej Industries is a major supporter of the World Wildlife Fund in India. It has developed a green business campus in the Vikhroli township of Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre (0.61 km2) mangrove forest and a school for the children of employees of the company. In addition to this and several other green initiatives, the group has also established many Trusts and Foundations through which it invests in education, health-care and the upliftment of the under-privileged of the country. The group also built a self-contained township called the Phirozshah Nagar for its employees, thus paving way for basic but comfortable, safe and hygienic accommodation for hundreds of employees, who get access to the homes in lieu of the home rent allowance. This was its way of realizing the dream Phirozshah Godrej, as also to take forward the trusteeship legacy of its founding fathers by striving to achieve, in its own little way, what Gandhiji had said, in reference to trusteeship, a just equitable society. A value-based upbringing and an unflinching adherence to the time-tested virtues of successful businessmen – quality, value for money, discipline, enterprising nature, acute business acumen with a flair for the best that life has to offer: be it physical fitness, education, living, luxury, travel, holidaying, adventure (jet skiing and speed-boating with his grandsons, and trekking), etc., as well as appreciating the benefits of being frugal when required, and a worthy and well-oriented succession waiting to take over the reins of the group, and top it with whole-hearted philanthropy – Mr. Adi Godrej is certainly up there with the best of the spark of the corporates. Hope viewers caught up the spark..  For more other sparks of Corporate: "http://sparks.wisdomjobs.com/"