COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
<p>Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP
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Shukla to inaugurate workshop on climate change today
Minister of State for Energy and Mineral Resources (independent charge) Rajendra Shukla will inaugurate a workshop on 'project to strengthen Climate Change Cell' on Monday, April 26, 2010. The workshop will be held at RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration at Bhopal from 10 am. It is being organised jointly by Housing and Environment Department and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Now, a special sanitation task force for Mumbai
Mumbai: To ensure that sanitation projects are undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), its Standing Committee chairperson Rahul Shewale has hinted at forming a special task force that would keep a tab in the implementation of these projects in the city.
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No link between growth, better life
Massive Improvement In Edu, Health Has Had Little To Do With Globalization: Report
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Maoists love NREGA in Jharkhand
Job programmes under the scheme, meant for poor, not being blocked by Red rebels
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Plodding along
A people
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Even sub-Sahara pips S Asia
With 73% Of The Region
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Reality check: UN shows shocking gender disparity
India has the maximum number of women dying in the Asia-Pacific region because of discriminatory treatment in access to health and nutrition and sex-selective abortion, according to a report prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that reveals shocking levels of gender disparity in the country.
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Gender equality makes good economics too, finds UNDP
Patralekha Chatterjee The new UNDP report flags three key areas where policy interventions are needed to promote gender equality -building economic power, promoting political voice and advancing legal rights
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Employ more women, add 2-4% to GDP: UN
The annual GDP growth rate of the country would increase by two to four per cent if nearly 70 per cent of the women were part of the work force, says a UN report.
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Five-year project implemented for checking land, forest degradation
An Integrated Project for Land and Eco System Management to Combat Forest Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh for checking land and forest degradation. The five-year project will be implemented in Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria and Sidhi districts.