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International day against drug abuse: Drug abuse, trafficking and violence
June 26 is the International Day against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. Read UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the world. Drug abuse and illicit trafficking continue to have a...
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Together we’ll end AIDS
A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that domestic funding for HIV has exceeded international investments. The report, Together we will end AIDS, states that...
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World AIDS Day 2012: Getting to zero
World AIDS Day on 1 December brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The day is an...
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Why is India refusing to sign the UN resolution against child marriage?
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the closure of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), a media report said. The first-ever UN emergency health mission was established in...
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There will be no end to world population growth in this century, says the UN, adding that the world’s population will increase from 7.3 billion people to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion at the...
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While there will be no end to the world population growth in this century, developing countries with young populations but lower fertility like India face the prospect of a substantial population...
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The UN launched an ambitious public-private strategy to end preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by providing life-saving treatments from immunisations to perinatal care. UN launched...
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UN World Toilet Day: Govt. needs to tap rural people’s intelligence to for...
On the occasion of United Nations World Toilet Day, organizations like World Toilet Organization, Parmarth Niketan, Reckitt Benckiser India and Pehel- The Initiative, emphasised that to make India a...
View ArticleFocusing on IP to increase access to healthcare is narrow approach
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in developing countries as this involves making available affordable and quality medicines to people living in poverty. Goal 3 of the UN’s sustainable...
View ArticleYoga made it to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list
In what is being seen as a diplomatic triumph for India, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed yoga in Unesco’s Representative List as...
View Article21-year-old Indian Sathviga Sridhar wins first UNICEF Climate Comic Contest!
Sathviga ‘Sona’ Sridhar, a 21-year-old artist from Chennai, India, is the winner of the first-ever UNICEF Climate Comic Contest for her character ‘Light’ – a half tree-half human who uses special...
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The United Nations health agency on Thursday launched the first global monitoring system for dementia, which is expected to affect 152 million people worldwide by 2050 – triple the current 50 million –...
View ArticleEfforts must be made to empower women and girls with autism: UN...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said efforts must be made to empower women and girls with autism. In his message on Monday for the World Autism Awareness Day, the Secretary-General said “we...
View ArticleWorld population to cross 11 billion by the end of the century
There will be no end to world population growth in this century, says the UN, adding that the world’s population will increase from 7.3 billion people to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion at the...
View ArticleUN — India’s ageing population needs better health care by 2100
While there will be no end to the world population growth in this century, developing countries with young populations but lower fertility like India face the prospect of a substantial population...
View ArticleUN launches new strategy to end preventable death of women, children
The UN launched an ambitious public-private strategy to end preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by providing life-saving treatments from immunisations to perinatal care. UN launched...
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UN World Toilet Day: Govt. needs to tap rural people’s intelligence to for...
On the occasion of United Nations World Toilet Day, organizations like World Toilet Organization, Parmarth Niketan, Reckitt Benckiser India and Pehel- The Initiative, emphasised that to make India a...
View ArticleFocusing on IP to increase access to healthcare is narrow approach
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in developing countries as this involves making available affordable and quality medicines to people living in poverty. Goal 3 of the UN’s sustainable...
View ArticleYoga made it to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list
In what is being seen as a diplomatic triumph for India, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has inscribed yoga in Unesco’s Representative List as...
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