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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World economic situation and prospects as of mid-2021
While the global growth outlook has improved, led by robust rebound in China and the United States, surging COVID-19 infections and inadequate vaccination progress in many countries threaten a broad-based
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Food security in developing countries: Gender and spatial interactions
This brief summarizes findings of a project entitled “Food Security in Developing Countries: Gender and Spatial Interactions’” undertaken by researchers from the University of Alberta. The project uses
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The State of the World’s Midwifery 2021
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year. Millions of lives of women and newborns are lost, and
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Air pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a gender equality, social equity and poverty reduction lens
Gender inequality and social inequity – understood in terms of access to and control over assets, participation in decision making, and knowledge, which are all dimensions of poverty – are deeply intertwined
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Improving maternal nutrition in India through integrated hot-cooked meal programs: A review of implementation evidence
A notable approach to addressing maternal undernutrition during pregnancy in India in recent years has been the integration of hot-cooked meals (HCM) for pregnant and lactating women together with the
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State of World Population 2021
Almost half of women in some 57 countries do not have the power to make choices over their healthcare, contraception, or sex lives, a new United Nations report has revealed. According to the UN Population
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Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World’s Human Rights
The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the way for the devastation
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Changes in women’s empowerment in the household, women’s diet diversity, and their relationship against the background of COVID-19 in Southern Bangladesh
This study will address the evidence gap of changes in women’s empowerment in their households and women’s diet diversity in rural Bangladesh against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically,
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Women and Men in India 2020
Gender equality has been increasingly recognized as being essential to the process of sustainable development and the formulation of effective national development policies and programmes. Gender statistics
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Gendering human development: a working paper for computing HDI, GDI and GII for state of India
In view of importance of regular reporting of the state-wise values of HDI, GDI and GII, an attempt has been made to compute HDI, GDI and GII using the HDRO methodology and available data sets for the