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A world where children everywhere live beyond the age of five
It is likely that 90 countries, 53 of them developing nations, could reduce child mortality rates by two-thirds by 2015 if they maintain their current rate of progress. Worryingly, however, 98 developing countries lag behind, finds a new Unicef report More... NACO spends less than half its funds: CAGA recent audit of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) by the country's Comptroller and Auditor General uncovers serious gaps in the performance and attitudes of both the organisation and the Indian health ministry More... The disappearing girl-childThe ‘First Report on Religion Data, 2001’, collected during Census 2001, brings to light the persistent bias among communities against the girl-child and clarifies that region plays a greater role than religion in overall development indicators More... Meeting the MDG of gender parity in basic educationThe United Nations acknowledges that without success in achieving education goals there is little prospect of achieving the other perhaps most important Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. A Global Campaign for Education report has some answers More... The average Lok Sabha MP is worth Rs 1.4 croreA higher percentage of less-educated MPs are richer and have more criminal cases against them than those with higher educational attainments. The Public Affairs Centre's analysis of the background and assets of 541 members of India's parliament suggests that money and muscle power continue to bring in the votes More... Increased social security will enhance economic growth, social stabilityA new survey by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) highlights the fact that individual economic security promotes well-being and tolerance, whilst also contributing to the growth and development of a nation More... World population will increase from 6.4 billion to 8.9 billion by 2050'The State of the World Population 2004' report examines population, reproductive health and the global effort to end poverty ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo More... The voices of the millworkers of Mumbai'One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices' is a strong and sprawling history of Mumbai's textile mill district and its 1.3 million people, now displaced by the consumer civilisation More... The unheard scream: Reproductive health and women's livesA review of a new book on the neglect, deprivation and non-existent reproductive healthcare in India More... Children shunned, placed at high HIV riskHuman Rights Watch's report 'Future Forsaken: Abuses Against Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in India' tells a damning story about the number of children in India affected by HIV/AIDS and the discrimination they face in schools, at medical institutions and at home More... 15 million and counting: growing numbers orphaned by AIDSFifteen million children under the age of 15 have been orphaned by AIDS till date, reversing the effects of better health and nutrition standards worldwide, says a new Unicef report More... Global defence spending skyrockets, at the expense of developmentIn a disturbing trend, poorer countries in Asia and Africa are diverting funds from the health and education sectors to defence More... |
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