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...

UK pledges ?720m to climate change fund for poor countries

Britain will face a disaster if it adopts an ?isolationist approach? to the environment, the energy secretary, Ed Davey, has warned as he announced the UK is to give ?720m ...

UK pledges ?720m to climate change fund for poor countries

Britain will face a disaster if it adopts an “isolationist approach” to the environment, the energy secretary, Ed Davey, has warned as he announced the UK is to...

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...

The one dollar contraceptive set to make family planning easier

An agreement has been signed which will make contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries.

It is an inj...

Amitabh Bachchan participates in Swachh Bharat Abhyan

Actors like Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan got to the streets and actively participated in the new cleanliness drive initiated by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The acto...

The moral issue of climate change

The politics of selfishness was embraced enthusiastically last week by Sen. Mitch McConnell. In dismissing President Obama?s deal with China to reduce carbon emissions, the...

The moral issue of climate change

The politics of selfishness was embraced enthusiastically last week by Sen. Mitch McConnell. In dismissing President Obama’s deal with China to reduce carbon emission...

Empowering women is the smart approach to sustainable development

As the Asia Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is convened in Bangkok, UN ESCAP executive secretary Shamsad Akthar shares that empo...