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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Situation analysis of energy and gender issues in ECOWAS Member States 2015
The Clean Energy Ministerial's (CEM) Clean Energy Solutions Center released a report on energy and gender issues in the 15 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The report, which lays the
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Protecting the environment: why a gender perspective matters
This report illustrates linkages between environment and gender in the five main areas of work of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC): agriculture, forests, seas and fishing, hazardous chemicals,
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Making climate finance work for women: overview of the integration of gender equality in aid to climate change
This brief provides an overview of how members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are integrating gender equality into their bilateral aid to climate change, and calls on DAC members to
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Women and Men in India 2015
Government has been taking a number of initiatives to achieve gender equity in the social sectors like health, education, etc. and to achieve gender parity on social, economic and political arena. Providing
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World's first all-female patrol protecting South Africa's rhinos
The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South Africa has acquired a new weapon: women. The Black Mambas are all young women from local communities, and they patrol inside
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Slim by design: Kitchen counter correlates of obesity
<p>The home is one place where people can control what foods are available and how the environment is arranged. Given the impact of environments on health, the objective of this study is to determine whether
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Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change
Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international
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More at cancer risk from frequent diagnostic scans
Habit Of Ordering Too Many Tests Endangering Patients: Experts When Ramesh Thakur (46) experienced intense pain in the abdomen last month, he rushed to a big south Delhi hospital. The emergency physician,
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World report on women’s health 2015
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) - representing 125 national societies of obstetricians and gynecologists worldwide - released at the XXI World Congress of Gynecology and
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Early marriage increasing risk of cervical cancer among rural women: Experts
MADURAI: Incidents of cervical cancers are on the decline among women in cities but are high among their rural counterparts, and early marriage is one reason for it, said doctors at the 30th annual conference