-Down to Earth Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria The United Nations (UN) released this week the millennium development goals (MDG) Report, 2014. The report, launched by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, says that many of the development goals have been met or are within reach by 2015. The report is the latest finding to assess the regional progress towards...
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Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report
-PTI India had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012 India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the millennium development goals that said while several key global targets have been met, more sustained effort is needed to cover disparities by the 2015 deadline. The ‘millennium development goals Report 2014′, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in United Nations Monday said...
More »30% girls in Maharashtra are child brides: Study -Meenakshi Rohatgi
-The Times of India PUNE: Child marriages have decreased since the first National Family Health Survey in 1992-93 when 54% of women between 20 and 24 years were married as children to 47%, at present. However, almost 40% of the girls in India are still married before the age of 14, according to a report by Dasra in collaboration with the UNICEF and UNFPA. In Maharashtra, 30-40% of girls were married before they...
More »Investment in midwifery can save millions of lives of women and newborns
-WHO, UNFPA, International Confederation of Midwives PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - A report released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund together with the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), WHO and partners reveals that major deficits in the midwifery workforce occur in 73 countries where these services are most desperately needed. The report recommends new strategies to address these deficits and save millions of lives of women and newborns. The 73 African,...
More »Majority of people lack proper social protection, UN agency reports
-The United Nations In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, more than 70 per cent of the world population is without proper social protections, the United Nations labour agency today reported, urging governments to scale up investment in child and family benefits, pensions and other public expenditures. "The global community agreed in 1948 that social security and health care for children, working age people who face unemployment or injury and older...
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