World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
London: Cancer has become Britain’s greatest health risk, with an average British boy born in 2010 running a 44% chance of being diagnosed with any form of cancer during his lifetime. The risk for a baby girl is slightly lower at 40%. A landmark report brought out by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Intelligence Network on Tuesday has found that British men are at significantly greater risk of both developing and dying from nearly all of the common cancers that occur in both sexes (with the exception of breast cancer).
INDORE: The World Bank Group has announced the launch of 2013 India Development Marketplace in Madhya Pradesh and pledged $1 million in grants to be awarded on a competitive basis to social enterprises for their development solutions. Development Marketplace, supported by the World Bank, is a competitive grant-based program. It focuses on non-profit and for-profit development solutions that demonstrate innovative and effective ways to address the most pressing social and economic problems impacting the poor and underserved communities. The selected winners are given financial and advisory support to scale the impact of their work.
The government of Japan has decided to extend financial support of $245,833 (Rs 24 million) to two Pakistani NGOs to help improve the quality of maternal health and social welfare services in Faisalabad.
The Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation (KSWDC) will set up electronic toilets for women in 23 locations in the capital city. ‘She-toilets’ is a first-of-its-kind in the country, a press release said. Minister for Social Justice and Panchayats MK Muneer will launch the toilets at a function on January 29. In the first phase, KSWDC in association with the City Corporation will install them in major city centres, tourist locations and places. The project will be rolled out in all districts subsequent phases.
More than 420,000 children under the age of five years die every year in the country due to both external and internal factors. The major causes of death among under-five children are birth Asphyxia
An Act to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times
Every time people lose faith in the political establishment, urban middle classes embrace fascism and the poor take up arms against the state The last image of 2012 is that of protesters storming central Delhi, outraged at the brutal rape of a young girl and the culture of violence against women. This outburst by the educated middle class, many of them young women, was spontaneous as much as it was leaderless. But as we move into the next year, we need to think about the government’s response to this protest and other demonstrations. We need to understand if the Indian state has any clue about what is going on under its nose — and feet.
The proportion of women and children receiving health care in the poorest countries is increasing. Unfortunately, markers of improved health outcomes, such as falling maternal or newborn mortality, have
The violence against women begins when girls are denied health and nutrition. (Editorial)
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and