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Uruguay urges rooting new sustainable development agenda in human rights

The basis of a new sustainable development agenda must be poverty eradication, rooted in a strong foundation of human rights and recognition of rights, Uruguay’s Fore...

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Health

Accent on male sterilisation

Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases o...

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Health

Grand Challenges India organises workshop on maternal and child health in Mumbai

Globally, over 6 million children under the age of five die each year, and approximately 165 million (26%) of the world’s children have stunted growth jeopardizing su...

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Sustainable Development

NGOs Offer Recommendations on Data Revolution

Numerous civil society groups and academics focus on efforts for a global data revolution for the post-2015 development agenda, in recent blog entries, open letters, and re...

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World conference on education for sustainable development opens next week in Japan

Unesco’s director-general, the Crown Prince of Japan and Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco — the President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the...

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Stars power social causes

Festive season is usually accompanied with the joy of giving, and at this time of the year many known artists from music, films and art fraternity have come forward to show...

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Health

Centre joins hands with Gates for universal sanitation

With the objective of addressing sanitation related health concerns, the Urban Development Ministry and the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation have agreed on a partnership...

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Health

Gates Foundation boosts aid to stamp out malaria; targets Ebola

Philanthropist Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give more money toward that goal, part of his broader fight against tropical diseases that a...

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More Indians will discover the fun in philanthropy: Melinda Gates

Asked recently what he admired most about his wife, Bill Gates replied that it was her “people dynamics”. Melinda Gates, who mingles comfortably with women heal...

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Health

Modi @ Reliance hospital opening: ‘Plastic surgeon may have fixed elephant’s head on Ganesha’

Describing neonatal and maternal mortality rates as a matter of grave concern, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his government wanted to effectively use its &l...

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