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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MDG report 2014: assessing progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
While an increasing number of Africans are enjoying higher living standards, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa should redouble efforts to ensure crises such as the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa do
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Future-focused women fight climate change better
Future-oriented women are more likely to take concrete steps to reduce global warming, says a study. "They are more politically liberal and liberals are more likely to value the environment which makes
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WHO position paper on mammography screening
A new WHO position paper examines the balance of benefits and harms in offering mammography screening to women after the age of 40 in a variety of settings. Every year, breast cancer kills more than 500,000
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The global gender gap report 2014
The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 emphasizes persisting gender gap divides across and within regions. Based on the nine years of data available for the 111 countries that have been part of the report since
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Flawed fabrics: the abuse of girls and women workers in the South Indian textile industry
This report highlights serious labour rights and human rights violations faced by girls and young women employed in the Tamil Nadu spinning industry in South India, which is a major hub in the global knitwear
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Child and maternal nutrition
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Iron sucrose use to be upped to check MMR
State’s maternal mortality rate 230 against national average of 178 Concerned over a persisting high maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Odisha, the National Health Mission (NHM) has decided to expedite
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
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Statistical profile of Scheduled Tribes in India 2013
Statistical Profile of Scheduled Tribes in India 2013 is second in the series prepared by the Statistics Division of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. This publication provides a comprehensive overview in
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Women hit as thyroid cancers rise
CHINA has reported 4.6 times more cases of thyroid cancer over the past decade, with women worst hit. Young and middle-aged women are most vulnerable to papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common