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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Exposure to greenness and mortality in a nationwide prospective cohort study of women
<p>Green, natural environments may ameliorate adverse environmental exposures (e.g., air pollution, noise, and extreme heat), increase physical activity and social engagement, and lower stress. Researchers
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Cooking coal use and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study of women in Shanghai, China
<p>Nearly 4.3 million deaths worldwide were attributable to exposure to household air pollution in 2012. However, household coal use remains widespread. Researchers investigated the association of cooking
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Women’s economic empowerment- Navigating enablers and constraints
<p>Men are more than twice as likely to be in formal full-time employment as women in 17 countries with poor records on gender equality. New analysis of Gallup World Poll data reveals that in 17 countries
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Climate change vulnerability assessment report: developing a demonstration site in Nepal on community forestry, gender and climate change adaptation
The Asia-Pacific region has some of the highest absolute numbers of people dependent on forests for significant portions of their livelihoods, and also stands to suffer some of the greatest expected economic
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Report on Fifth Annual Employment- Unemployment Survey (2015-16)
<p>The experience of countries that succeeded in reducing poverty significantly indicates the importance of high rates of economic growth in achieving this. High growth, however, is not a sufficient condition
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Report on education, skill development and labour force (2015-16)
<p>India has a great opportunity to meet the future skilled manpower demands of the World, India can become the worldwide sourcing hub for skilled workforce. The challenges for India get magnified, as
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India's deadly floods raise risk of women, children being sold into slavery
Women and children in India’s flood-hit eastern region are at risk of being preyed upon by human traffickers and sold into slavery in middle class homes, restaurants and shops, and even brothels, aid workers
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Women across world spend 200m hours every day collecting water: Unicef
Women and girls across the world collectively spend about 200 million hours every day collecting water which is a “colossal waste” of their valuable time, the UN children’s agency has said of the activity
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Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa Costs $95 Billion per Year
NAIROBI – Gender inequality endangers inclusive human development and costs the region of sub-Saharan Africa an average of $95 billion a year, or 6 percent of its GDP, according to a report released Sunday
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Africa Human Development Report 2016: advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in Africa
Gender inequality is costing sub-Saharan Africa on average $US95 billion a year, peaking at US$105 billion in 2014– or six percent of the region’s GDP – jeopardising the continent’s efforts for inclusive