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Sustainable Development

3 Cities Show Ways To Make Local Progress On The Sustainable Development Goals

A year after all members of the United Nations adopted an ambitious 15-year agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals, we are beginning to see implementation action...

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Sustainable Development

Experts Seek Subsidy For Solar Cooking In Sustainable Development Goals

Vadodara: The organizers of the 6th Solar Cookers International World Conference that concluded here on Wednesday will strive to include solar cooking in the sustainable de...

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Health

Why India’s Healthcare Trends In 2016 Do Not Bode Well For The Future

India should not persevere with its focus on privatising healthcare or relying on health insurance.The image that would haunt me for a long time from this year is that of D...

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Health

‘Reproductive Health Services, Female Education Can Slow Population Growth’

The analysis says achieving the SDGs set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7...

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Human Rights

'Stand Up For Someone's Rights Today,' UN Urges On Human Rights Day

Upholding human rights is in the interest of all and are at the heart of the work and identify of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed ahead of Hu...

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Health

Opinion: No more excuses — saving maternal and newborn lives

Each day, more than 800 mothers and 15,000 babies continue to die, mostly from preventable causes. The phrase “mostly from preventable causes” is restated in so...

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Human Rights

Human Rights Watch Submission To WHO High-Level Working Group On Health & Human Rights Of Women, Children & Adolescents

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the World Health Organization (WHO) High-level Working Group on Health and Human Rights of Women, Children a...

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Health

11 Health Innovations To Drastically Cut Maternal And Child Mortality Rates

Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 hea...

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Hollywood

Wonder Woman Honorary Ambassador For The Empowerment Of Women And Girls

Wonder Woman, the iconic superhero, has been named an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls by the United Nations and will be tasked with raising aware...

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Human Rights

India’s Hunger Crisis Worse Than Bangladesh, Nepal

Reductions in the prevalence of undernourishment, child stunting, child mortality and child wasting (low weight for height) have led to the improvement in Global Hunger Ind...

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