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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Kenya: Cut On Trump's Fund Puts Millions of Lives At Risk
Millions of Kenyan women and children dependent on health care funded by a UN agency face a bleak future. The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) receives funding from the United States, but Donald
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MNCH launches case study report on health
THE Ministry of Health and the Zambia Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Alliance have launched a case study report dubbed ‘Investment case in Zambia’s future’ to advocate for increased resources
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The nutrition transition and the iIntra-household double burden of malnutrition in India
India is clearly far along in the nutrition transition. This paper shows that there have been rapid increases in the proportion of adult women in India who are overweight and obese: these increases are
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Status of gender, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: impacts and implications for livelihoods, and sustainable mountain development
The overarching recognition in all the literature is that climate change will have huge and largely detrimental impacts on vulnerable communities, and that gender will be a defining feature in shaping
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Independent People’s Tribunal on the status of implementation of Forest Rights Act (2006): a report
Adivasis who seek their constitutional rights are being criminalised by the state, and the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is being rampantly violated, said several adivasi community groups that deposed before
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Kenya: Drought Begets Sexual Violence in Kenya
Nairobi — THE worst drought in decades is exposing Kenyan women to sexual attacks and girls to early marriages and forced labour. Women have been reported to walk long distances to the nearest sources
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Terror at Midnight: Abduction Trauma of Kenyan Woman Fighting for Forests
As Wanjiku, a Kenyan land rights activist, stepped out of the minibus and into the night, two other passengers pushed her into a nearby car. She had made a mistake: not taking seriously death threats
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Economic report on Africa 2017: urbanization and industrialization for Africa’s transformation
Despite the recent slowdown of the global economy and the weakening of Africa’s economic performance with the attendant implications for inclusion and sustainability, the long term growth outlook for Africa
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Did MGNREGS improve financial inclusion?
Utilising household-level data, this paper investigates the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on financial inclusion. Exploiting the staggered timing of the roll-out of
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Wild water: the State of the World's Water 2017
Across the world 663 million people still do not have access to water; the vast majority of them - over half a billion - live in rural areas. In Wild Water, WaterAid’s state of the world’s water report,