-Newsclick.in The recovery team ‘created a scene’ in front of the farmer’s relatives at his house in a village in Bijnor hours before his niece’s wedding. Lucknow: A 43-year-old debt-ridden farmer committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Bijnor district on Friday after being allegedly humiliated by the loan recovery team of the village cooperative society. A resident of Hasanpur Jat village, under Haldaur Police Station, Revati Singh had taken a loan of about...
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Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute in 15 crisis-hit countries
-Press release by unicef.org Ahead of G7 summit, unicef appeals for US$1.2 billion to meet urgent needs of 8 million children at risk of death from severe wasting NEW YORK, 23 June 2022 — Almost 8 million children under 5 in 15 crisis-hit countries are at risk of death from severe wasting unless they receive immediate therapeutic food and care – with the number rising by the minute, unicef warned today as...
More »70 per cent of 10-year-olds in 'learning poverty', unable to read and understand a simple text
-Press release by unicef dated 23 June, 2022 COVID-19 worsens global learning crisis, risking $21 trillion in lifetime earnings WASHINGTON: As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new report published today by the World Bank,...
More »Why Eradicating Open Defecation Is Not the Same as Setting up New Toilets -Sujeet Kumar
-TheWire.in * India has reduced open defecation and made some progress to improve sanitation services. But its sanitation system is not yet sustainable and not yet safe. * In Tapoban Basti in Bhubaneswar, some men avoid using the toilet every day to not have to incur the cost of cleaning out the septic tank. * In a basti on the outskirts of Jaipur, a community toilet slowly ran out of water and the...
More »Severe malnutrition or wasting, ‘excruciatingly painful’ threat to child survival
-United Nations News Severe malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, is one of the top threats to child survival, yet perhaps one of the least known or understood, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (unicef). Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting. Triggered by a lack of nutritious food...
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