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Sustainable Development

This App Helps Citizens Report Deadly Mosquito Sightings

For the past two years, Spanish citizens have been using an app dubbed ‘Mosquito Alert’ to report sightings and breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus, or Tiger m...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fa...

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Bollywood

Anupam Kher Supports UN Women's Work On Gender Equality

Veteran actor Anupam Kher is happy to be appointed as the 50/50 champion for gender equality to support UN Women's work. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly create...

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Health

Measuring What Works: Evaluating Women’s Groups On Maternal Health Uptake In Rural Nepal

Last month Women’s Deliver Conference in Copenhagen was a turning point for the future of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with regards to women and girls&rsq...

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Bollywood

Virat Kohli And MS Dhoni To Go Up Against Ranbir Kapoor And Abhishek Bachchan In Charity Football Match.

A charity football match on 4th June will see the biggest stars from the world of Bollywood and Indian cricket descend on Mumbai. Abhishek Bachchan will lead an All Stars F...

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Environment

Parties Discuss Aspects Of Global Stocktake At Bonn Climate Talks

On Tuesday, the Ad-hoc Working Group on Paris Agreement (APA) asked parties to discuss three issues related to global stocktake—inputs needed for conducting the stock...

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Health

WHO South–East Asia Region Eliminates Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus

In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases t...

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Health

Making A Fundamental Shift In Drug Policy And Harm Reduction

In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly convened a special session under the slogan, “A drug-free world — we can do it!” with the goal of prohibiting...

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Human Rights

Protecting The Most Vulnerable: Supporting People With Mental Disorders During Disasters

When 5,000 leaders converge this month on Istanbul, Turkey, at the first World Humanitarian Summit, their goal will be “to stand up for our common humanity and take a...

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Human Rights

Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments ha...

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