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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A water-secure world for all- water for development: responding to the challenges
The Stockholm World Water Week’s focus on “Water for Development” comes at an opportune time. Water as a sector in world affairs is reaching a tipping point. Over the next two decades and more, the global
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Gender differences in climate change risk, food security and adaptation: a study of rural households’ reliance on agriculture and natural resources to sustain livelihoods
Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportionately leave female-headed households food insecure. However, the extent and reasons for these gender differences are, thus far, not well
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Young adults, women experience only slight declines in heart disease deaths
Deaths from heart disease have declined dramatically over the last few decades but young people, particularly women, are not sharing equally in that improvement, according to new research in the American
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Scaling success- Lessons from adaptation pilots in the rainfed regions of India
<p>As climate change threatens India’s food security, adaptation in the agriculture sector is becoming increasingly important. However, for too long, adaptation has been characterized by individual
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Understanding issues involved in toilet access for women
While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: a catalyst for rural transformation
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) helped lower poverty by 32 per cent between 2004-05 and 2011-12, lifting almost 14 million in this regard, says a recent survey
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MGNREGA Sameeksha II: an anthology of research studies (2012-2014)
MGNREGA Sameeksha II is proposed as a continuation of the objective of nurturing a discourse around MGNREGA which is open, scientific, critical and constructive. It reviews research studies carried out
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Malnutrition ubiquitous in CHT mothers, infants
A number of children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are stunted, wasted, and underweight, a study of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has found. Anaemia prevalence in those children (6-59 months)
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More men back nuclear, women like solar: climate change gender divide found
If the climate change debate wasn't polarised enough, another divide has opened up: the attitudes of men versus those of women. Climate Institute research published on Monday confirms Australian men
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Use of combined oral contraceptives and risk of venous thromboembolism: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases
<p>The objective of the study was to investigate the association between use of combined oral contraceptives and risk of venous thromboembolism, taking the type of progestogen into account.</p> <p><a