In rural India, climate migrants 'have hysterectomies to survive'
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Bhasker Tripathi
Published: March 06, 2024
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As climate change impacts hit farming, women driven into gruelling sugarcane work have the procedure to work harder, report says
NEW DELHI - Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugarcane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Thursday.
Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on sugar plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank.
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