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
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Women, Gender Equality and Climate Change
This UN factsheet focuses on how women are affected by climate and how they respond.
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Accelerating action: Global leaders on challenges & opportunities for MDG achievement
Fourteen years ago world leaders unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration, which sought to harness the uneven process of globalization as a historic opportunity “to create a shared future, based
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US increases assistance for women, children of flood-hit districts
Kathmandu, Sept 24: The United States of America is to provide additional financial assistance of Rs 18.4 million for the relief of women and children of flood-affected Banke, Bardiya and Surkhet districts.
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U.N. Women chief: Climate change impacts fall hardest on women
Women must take a greater leadership role in fighting climate change because its effects fall hardest on women, the head of UN Women said this week. "Women are on the frontlines, bearing the brunt of
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Maneka Gandhi for action plan to tackle malnutrition
Union minister for women and child development (WCD) Maneka Gandhi on Monday laid stress on putting in place a comprehensive time bound action plan in the form of “National Nutrition Mission” to tackle
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding female foeticide, 16/09/2014
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Voluntary Health Association of Punjab Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/09/2014 regarding female foeticide and the reduction of sex ratio.
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Effect of implementation of the mass breast cancer screening programme in older women in the Netherlands: population based study
Breast cancer is the largest contributor to cancer incidence and cancer mortality in women worldwide. As people in Western societies are living longer, there will be an increase in the proportion of older
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Well begun but not yet done: progress and emerging challenges for poverty reduction in Vietnam
This book presents the key findings from a new poverty assessment for Vietnam, led jointly by the World Bank and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). It takes a fresh look at the lives of poor
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Aerial application of Mancozeb and Urinary Ethylene Thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: The Infants’ Environmental Health Study (ISA)
Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale
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How resilient are farming households, communities, men and women to a changing climate in Africa?
Social, economic and institutional factors and driving forces enhance or hinder the adaptation capacity of agricultural and pastoral households and communities. The effectiveness of the resulting adaptation