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    Is Fortified Rice the Only Way to Provide Nutritious Food?

    The lack of a scientific or a democratic approach to improving the state of nutrition with an attempt like rice fortification can lead to...
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    Child Labour

    From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge of Child Labour

    Tara Banjara, rescued from her life of a child labour at the age of eight years, questions whether children who are born poor are...
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    Food sovereignty

    Halt Fortified Rice Distribution, Campaigners Tell Jharkhand Government

    The campaigners point out to initiatives by civil society groups in Jharkhand demonstrating effective ways of dealing with nutrition holistically. They say that local,...
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    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan: War, Economic Crisis, Drought, Winter, Hunger

    While humanitarian assistance averted a food security catastrophe in the harsh winter months, hunger persists at unprecedented levels in Afghanistan. People require humanitarian assistance,...
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    Red Cross Fund Document Takes Note of Civil Unrest in Sri Lanka

    The Red Cross aid document has called this a fund for civil unrest – though the grant document alludes to the unrest being a...
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    Early childhood development

    Greenpeace India Uses RTI to Debunk Government Claims On Fortified Rice

    The government replies blow in the face of claims of fortified rice being a silver bullet to solve the high prevalence of undernutrition and...
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    Agriculture

    Millet Seeds Power Fight Against Hunger

    The Odisha Millets Mission aims at strengthening the livelihoods and food security of smallholder farmers by encouraging them to adopt the climate-resilient crop and,...
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    Human rights

    From Exit to Return: 30,000 Ukrainians Returning Home Daily

    In the 50 days since the Russian army invaded Ukraine, 870,000 people had fled the country, most of them women and children, besides elderly...
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