UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
Taking cognisance of potable water contamination in 12 districts of Maharashtra, National Green Tribunal led by Justice V R Kingaonkar and Justice Dr Ajay Desphande issued notices to 12 collectors, secretary of health ministry and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) asking them to submit a time-bound action plan to address …
Unicef India has launched ‘Take Poo to the Loo’, an innovative digital campaign focusing on putting an end to open defecation. The three month initiative aims to create awareness on the issue. The Indian Institute of Technology is to contribute to the initiative by mobilising students in the campus in …
The lid is off a basic reason why generations of girls drop out of school, never discovering their potential. Schools, state-run or otherwise, may have a toilet, but if existing loos lack basics such as privacy or water, girls prefer to stay at home. Reason — they feel too unsafe …
At least 44% of Pakistan’s population does not have access to safe toilets, while 53% women in Pakistan don’t have sanitation options with privacy. This was unveiled at events organised by different non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and schools to mark the World Toilet Day on Tuesday (November 19), aiming to create …
Despite ‘World Toilet Day’ being observed on Tuesday across the world, open defecation continues in many parts of the State due to lack of access to toilets. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has declared November 19 as ‘World Toilet Day’ with an aim to highlight the importance of …
Unicef India has launched ‘Take Poo to the Loo', a digital campaign focusing on putting an end to open defecation. The three-month initiative aims to create awareness on the issue. The Indian Institute of Technology is to contribute to the initiative by mobilising students in the campus in Delhi against …
KARACHI - At least 44% of Pakistan’s population does not have access to safe toilets, while 53% women in Pakistan don’t have sanitation options with privacy. This was unveiled at events organised by different non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and schools to mark the World Toilet Day on Tuesday (November 19), aiming …
On November 19 (tomorrow) as nations around the globe observe United Nations World Toilet Day to highlight the importance of toilets and sanitation; around 48 million Pakistanis will be defecating under the open skies. Pakistan, despite being a nuclear power, is still unable to provide basic sanitation to majority of …
JAIPUR: Untreated industrial and domestic effluent has turned rivers in Rajasthan into chemical-laden toxic 'nullahs' that are adversely affecting the ground water and health of people living around the 'once natural rivers.' The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in a report on 'Polluted River Stretches in India' has identified five …
102 vaccination posts have been set up along international borders in the wake of outbreak in Syria All States with international borders have been put on alert to reduce the risk of importation of poliovirus from neighbouring countries in the wake of a polio outbreak in Syria. As many as …
It, along with Nigeria, continues to have low coverage levels for prevention and treatment interventions India continues to have the highest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world, losing 4,00,000 children to these preventable diseases before they turn five, the latest report has revealed. Many more suffer from severe …
The Axom Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) Mission, along with UNICEF, Assam are jointly hosting the International Learning Exchange on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools on November 12 and November 13 at Guwahati. In an interaction with the media in a city based hotel today, it was said that …
Following is a list of some of the assistance offered to the Philippines from around the world after a devastating typhoon hit the center of the country last weekend. - THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT is appealing for 87 million Swiss francs ($94.6 million) to provide 100,000 …
The United States, Australia and the United Nations are mobilising emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerges. The Pentagon is sending military personnel and equipment to assist with the relief effort following the typhoon, which may have killed more than …
Officials of Dhaka University and United Nations Children’s Fund, Bangladesh on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to promoting health and nutrition, child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene education and research in the country, said a DU press release. Under the MoU, DU and UNICEF would organise …
Spells of drought in southern African this year have hit agricultural output and hurt economic growth in countries such as Zambia and Angola, underscoring the lingering importance of farming to the resource-rich region's prosperity. Cutting their 2013 economic growth estimates, both oil producing Angola and copper producer Zambia have cited …
At least 22 people are suspected of having polio in Syria, the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Deir al-Zor province are children …
In a startling revelation, a report made public during the fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation (Sacosan) on Tuesday says more than 675 million people in South Asia still practice open defecation. It shows that around half of the total 2.5 billion people without access to improved sanitation across the …
The Centre has identified Vellore as one of the high priority districts for taking action to achieve the millennium development goals (MDG) by 2015, according to Satheesh Kumar, Chief Officer, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He was speaking at a district-level seminar on ‘Improvement of Child …
Speakers at a discussion yesterday stressed more programmes on sanitation as a large number of the country’s people are still deprived of proper sanitation and hygiene facilities. They said inter-ministerial programmes were required provide the public with proper sanitation, a prerequisite for good health and environmental development. The discussion marking …
