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Breaking Point: Heat and the Garment Floor
This report by HeatWatch in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, is based on our research with 115 garment factory worker...
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Rising Heat and Waste Workers: Impact of Heat Stress on the Livelihood and Health of Waste Workers in Bengaluru
Heatwatch and Hasiru Dala have launched a new report exploring the growing threat of extreme heat in Bengaluru and its disproportionate impact on was...
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PRESS RELEASE: HeatWatch & CITU Haryana Train ASHA Workers in Rohtak on Heat & Health Preparedness
HeatWatch and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Haryana Organise Heat and Health Awareness Training for ASHA Workers in Rohtak on March 20, 2025
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Impact of Extreme Heat on Gig Workers: A Survey Report
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Can heat action plans prepare India for intense heatwaves?
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Heat Safety Charter for Workers in Apartments
Heat Safety Charter developed by HeatWatch and the Bangalore Apartment Federation (BAF), outlining simple and practical measures to support workers in...
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HeatWatch and TGPWU write to Central and State governments and to NHRC on impact of heatwaves on gig and platform workers
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ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ | #OpenOurParks: ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿರುವ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನಗಳನ್ನು ತೆರೆದಿಡೋಣ
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರುದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ವೇಳೆ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನಗಳ ಮುಚ್ಚುವಿಕೆ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂಪು ಮತ್ತು ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳ ಪ್ರವೇಶದ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ದಾಖಲಿಸುವ ಹಾಗೂ ತೀ...
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How extreme heat affects the human body
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Heat and Health at Work: A practical learning curriculum for ASHA workers
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Heat Safety Guidelines: Posters
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As heat waves become severe, can cooling be a right?
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Read article#OpenOurParks: Keeping Bengaluru's Parks Open When It Matters Most
As Bengaluru faces rising temperatures and extreme heat, access to shaded public spaces is becoming increasingly important. Through the #OpenOurParks ...
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In the Growing Heat: A Day in the Life of a Domestic Worker
Working across seven houses, Matol’s experience highlights the stark inequalities in how India’s classes experience and cope with extreme heat.
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Heat Waves and Disproportionate Impact on Waste Workers in Bangalore
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Heat waves as notified disaster - comprehensive solution or a first step?
The Disaster Management Act 2005 does not recognise heat waves as a disaster. This blog explores what would change if heat waves were notified as a di...
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Why are cities caught in the middle of a heat crisis
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रिपोर्ट | बढ़ती गर्मी में आशा कार्यकर्ता
यह रिपोर्ट हरियाणा में मान्यता प्राप्त सामाजिक स्वास्थ्य कार्यकर्ता (आशा - ASHA) कार्यकर्ताओं पर अत्यधिक गर्मी के प्रभावों का एक व्यापक अध्ययन प्रस्तु...
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HeatWatch Data Sprint Event
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Foreword: Working in an Overheating India
In the era of climate change, India is getting hotter and we are yet to acknowledge the unequal burden this extreme heat places on workers. The soluti...
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PRESS RELEASE: NEW REPORT HeatWatch's 2025 Report Reveals Undercounted HeatStroke Deaths and Urgent Gaps in Public Health Response
In stark contrast to official figures reporting just 14 confirmed heat-related deaths in India between March and June 2025, this report documents 84 s...
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Burning Shifts
The invisible crisis of heat stress in Tamil Nadu’s garment factories Workers endure more than heat stress during heatwaves in Tamil Nadu’s garment f...
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REPORT | In the line of heat -- ASHAs in a warming world
This report presents a comprehensive study on the effects of extreme heat on Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers in Haryana, exploring th...
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Killer Indian heat waves are set to get worse - Here’s why you should care
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Struck by Heat: A News Analysis of Heatstroke Deaths in India in 2024
HeatWatch found that between March and June, there have been 733 deaths due to heatstroke in 17 states in India. This data is more twice the number pr...
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Fair Pay. Shade. Water: Construction Workers Demand Relief from Deadly Heat
The women's experiences reflect the harsh reality of India's informal construction labour markets, where workers must balance their urgent need for in...
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Construction Workers’ Campaign and Outreach Brief: Heatwave Impacts on Workers
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How does extreme heat distort ecosystems
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No Shade in the Gig Economy: A Call for Gender-Equitable Heat Protections
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Heat Stress Beyond Heat Waves. How Heat Can Kill our Jobs and the Economy
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Data: Heatwave kills in India, but agencies can't agree on numbers, methodology
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