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Sustainable Development

In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

The earth beneath Lakshmi Karre’s sparse cotton crop is hard and dry. Dressed in a flowery orange sari, she squats in the large gap between two plants and tugs at som...

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Sustainable Development

UN Urges Action On Sustainable Development To Create Pathways For Global 'Transformation'

21 April 2016 – The President of the United Nations General Assembly today called on the international community to
take action on the new UN sustainable develo...

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Sustainable Development

Why Africa's First Private Satellite Has Been Built By School Girls?

Africa is about to launch its first private satellite.
Scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016, the launch will make MEDO, or the Meta Economic Development Organizati...

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Human Rights

Securing Our Societies From The Threat Of Senseless Terrorism

Since 2000, we have witnessed a more than ten-fold increase in the number of deaths from violent extremism and terrorism - from 3,329 victims in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014. And...

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Lessons From Semi-Arid Regions On How To Adapt To Climate Change

Rising temperatures and more extreme, unpredictable climate events are making sustainable livelihoods tough for many people living in semi-arid regions of the world. To ada...

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Gender

Women & The Sustainable Development Goals: Participant Voices

Every year thousands of activists from civil society organizations around the world come to New York to take part in the Commission on the Status of Women, the global inter...

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Health

Family Planning Is Critical For Our Nation’s Economic Development

India launched the world’s first National Family Planning Programme way back in 1952 and has been consistently working towards improving health and reducing fertility...

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Environment

Here's How The Number Of Fish In The Ocean Could More Than Double By 2050

Fish populations around the world have been decimated by overfishing — but new research suggests that this could soon change if the world got its act together.
F...

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Sustainable Development

The Globalisation Of Bad Food And Poor Health: Sustainable Development Or Sustainable Profits?

The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of dea...

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Human Rights

India Calls For Empowerment Of Autistic People

Stressing on empowering autistic people through appropriate education and employment opportunities, India has called for enhancing quality of life of differently-abled chil...

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