09-03-2010
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17-02-2010
Over a hundred thousand internally displaced persons remain in camps as the Sri Lankan Government misses a self-imposed deadline to resettle everyone in their own homes by end-January. The new deadline is April 2010.
11-02-2010
A report, released on 9th February, says that restoration of livelihoods is critical for the recovery of thousands who have survived the 2008 Cyclone Nargis. It urges aid and humanitarian support agencies to prioritise this along with successful health, nutrition and water interventions.
10-02-2010
"In Antartica, the wind is your worst enemy" - Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu relives the thrill and agony of participating in an expedition conceived to celebrate women’s empowerment, climate change and environmental degradation. The expedition commemorated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.
29-01-2010
Bhutan is likely to witness sharp increase in healthcare costs, says a McKinsey finding. The country’s health minister has urged for more efficiency, stressing on cutting costs by about 15% so as to make it possible for government to continue providing free healthcare services.
28-01-2010
Infants born to girls married before the age of 18 face a higher risk of malnutrition, according to a new research published in the British Medical Journal. With high incidence of child marriages, India has the highest number of under-five deaths in the world.
21-01-2010
Recognising that gender inequality is a major driver of the AIDS epidemic, the World Health Organisation has come out with a new tool that guides health care providers on bettering the gender-responsive aspect in their day to day HIV interventions.
21-01-2010
Three-quarters of more than one billion hungry people in the world are poor farmers. Climate change, associated with a four-fold increase in natural disasters in the last decade, poses new challenges for aid initiatives like those of the World Food Programme.
