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
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) has appealed to international community for $50.3 million to cover the immediate needs of children and women hit by the recent flood in the
A six-day global conference on sanitation and hygiene which began here on Monday called for all out efforts to ensure that everyone across the world has access to toilets and safe water to prevent deaths
Although women are admittedly bearing the brunt of climate change, India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has remained gender-blind and does not focus on gender issues. Aditi Kapoor’s
Expressing doubts over timely implementation of effective pictorial health warnings from December 1, various non-government organisations working in the area of tobacco control have written to Union Health
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday announced interest-free crop loan up to Rs. 1 lakh for farmers from this rabi season even as Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad launched the Rs. 1,800-crore Indira Jala Prabha programme for providing irrigation to ten acres belonging to SCs/ STs.
To mark October as the "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" the Pink Ribbon National Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign held a ceremony in memory of 40,000 women dying every year with breast cancer in Pakistan.
About 18.4 in every 100,000 Sri Lankan women had breast cancer in 2005. This figure has gone up to 25, Health Ministry media coordinator W M D Vanninayake said. He said there has been an increase in
The prevalence of malnutrition in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition including low birth weight, wasting, stunting,
This publication is a compilation of responses from civil society organisations to the Draft Approach Paper to the 12th Five-Year Plan.It presents a detailed critique of the Approach Paper in areas such
<p><span id="itro1">This State of World Population report looks at dynamics behind the numbers & explains trends that are defining our world of 7 bn. Says that with planning and the right investments