-The Telegraph What is most worrying is that some of the top causes of these deaths are preventable infectious diseases A progress report does not always BRIng cheer. A Lancet study showed that death of children under five in India went down from 2.5 million in the year 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015. Unfortunately, this still meant that India had the highest child mortality rate in the world in 2015. The...
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National Network of Sex Workers condemn recent raids on sex workers in Mumbai
-Petition submitted by National Network of Sex Workers to NHRC, dated 28th May, 2019 The National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW) has recently submitted a petition to the Chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Hon. Justice HL Dattu regarding police brutality and raids on sex workers in Mumbai on 24th-25th May 2019. According to that petition, there has been misuse of anti-trafficking provisions of Section 370, IPC by the police...
More »In India, who speaks in English, and where? -Rukmini S
-Livemint.com * English speakers are richer, more educated and more likely to be upper caste, data from the Lok Foundation survey shows * Hindi is both the most widely spoken first language and second language in India English speakers are very much India’s elite, and their proportion may be shrinking, new data on the demographic profile of English language speakers in India suggests. The 2011 Census showed English is the primary language—mother tongue—of 256,000...
More »See SDGs as a policy framework, not as a document -Amitabh Behar
-Down to Earth To start work, the Sustainable Development Goals first need to be popularised by the new government The new government has to ensure that each one in the country is able to enjoy freedom and practices tolerance without fear. National security is no doubt significant, but it cannot be the country’s political narrative. India is riddled with problems such as extreme poverty, exploitation and inequalities, and does not need to...
More »Farmers demand survey of land before implementing Title Guarantee Act -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Many countries have introduced Title Guarantee Acts to end uncertainty, duplication of land title deeds and endless disputes over the ownership of land holdings. Hyderabad: Farmers' unions and activists, on Tuesday, have asked the Telangana government to conduct a comprehensive survey of the land in the state before proceeding with the Title Guarantee Act. They said that the the state government should also introduce an exclusive Act to deal...
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