Elevation of Sankos Tea Garden, West Bengal, India

Sonatoni Karmakar's husband and brother were shot during clashes between Adivasis and Bodos in 1996. Although none of her family was injured in the recent attacks, they have rekindled her old nightmares. In a state of terror, she fled her home village and

As is often the case for refugee populations, women face a double burden, with their monthly cycle posing yet another challenge to life in a makeshift shelter. One woman at a camp in Lalachor village tells IPS she has been forced to tear her own clothes a

Hunger is constant in the refugee camps, with meagre rations of rice, lentils, cooking oil and salt falling short of most families’ basic needs. Women are forced to walk long distances to fetch firewood for woodstoves. Credit: Priyanka Borpujari/IPS