Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome) and substance abuse (including alcoholism and the use of and withdrawal from benzodiazepines) are risk factors. Some suicides are impulsive acts due to stress (such as from financial or academic difficulties), relationship problems (such as breakups or deaths of close ones), or harassment/bullying. Those who have previously attempted suicide are at a higher risk for future attempts. Effective suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to methods of suicide—such as …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English

This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

he was undergoing treatment after attempting suicide. According to reports, MTR officials took ten persons


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English

Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …

including agricultural labourers are dying by suicide. Youth are exiting agriculture. Corporates have


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English

The three-volume report Crime in India 2022 was published by the National Crime Records Bureau, an agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, in December 2022. This …

Deaths 6966 1.1 6753 1.0 6450 1.0 0.2 5 Abetment of Suicide 8816 0.7 9361 0.7 9400 0.7 0.3 6 Attempt to Commit 0.7 8428 0.6 10149 0.7 0.3 8 Attempt to Commit Suicide 1685 0.1 1863 0.1 1769 0.1 0.0 9 Miscarriage, Infanticide Negligence Dowry Deaths (Sec.304-B IPC) Abetment of Suicide (Sec.305/306 IPC) Deaths due to other Negligence Culpable Homicide (Sec.308 IPC) Attempt to Commit Suicide (Sec.309 IPC) STATES: UNION TERRITORIES: 16 I


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 July 2023 English

The report Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport: A Handbook for Policy Makers and Sports Practitioners was published by UNESCO and UN Women in 2023. It was authored …

and gastrointestinal problems, homicide, and suicide. Violence against women and girls does not impact committed suicide in 2019, citing her coach’s abuse as a reason for her death. Her suicide note mentioned


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 April 2023

When the powerful manipulate the official records, a poet picks up his words to pen the truth. This one about farmer suicides in UP and elsewhere in the country

bulldoze that scam In the column for the cause of suicide police wrote: ‘a fight with his wife.’ It was she health directory . #agrarian-crisis #poem #farmers-suicide Poem and Text : Devesh [email protected] • Share


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 March 2023 English

This report – the 24th edition of the Women & Men in India reports – was published in March 2023 by the Social Statistics Division at the National Statistical Office …

Suicides 182 Table 6.11 : Sex-wise Profile of Suicide Victims by various Parameters 183 Table 6.12


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English

This report was published in March 2023 by Common Cause, New Delhi, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. It is …

both inside and outside the village, leading to suicide in some cases (Gothoskar, 2017). Police surveillance


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2023 English

This brief was published by the Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory, an initiative of the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, Indian Law Society (ILS), Pune. Published in …

• Last year, along with T-MANAS, the National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS) was announced by the reducing suicide mortality in India by 10% in 2030.7 With the rising number of deaths by suicide in the Bureau reported that 26% of the people who died by suicide were daily wage earners.8 There is evidence that programmes such as MNREGS can lead to reduced suicide rates and improve mental health outcomes.9 Therefore Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. National Suicide Prevention Strategy. Accessed February 4, 2023


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 January 2023 English

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a nationwide household survey on children’s education and learning outcomes conducted across rural India. Children aged 3-16 years are surveyed based on …

examination stress and anxiety (sometimes ending in suicide), grade inflation in high school leaving examinations


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 January 2023 English

The Delhi-based Oxfam India published this India supplement of the Survival of the Richest report on January 15, 2023. It was written by Apoorva Mahendru, Kanishk Gomes, Mayurakshi Dutta, Noopur, …

on an average 115 daily wage workers died by suicide every day in 2021.16 Moreover, the pandemic-induced


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