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COVID-19

Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems

About 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment procured between March 2020 and November 2021 to support countries’ urgent COVID-19 response needs is expected to...

OWSA Staff - 1 February 2022

Agriculture

For Delhi’s ‘homeless farmers’, work satisfaction is important

There are evidently different yardsticks for government officials to apply when it comes to the tenant farmers of Delhi's Yamuna floodplains. In the floodplains of...

OWSA Contributor - 1 February 2022

Children

Leprosy in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

Cases of leprosy detected among migrant labourers returning from their employment abroad has reignited the conversation on the much-stigmatised disease. Doctors in Jhapa, Nepal have...

OWSA Contributor - 31 January 2022

Air

Economic Survey dwells on SDG achievements

The Economic Survey highlights the importance of balancing rapid economic growth with conservation, ecological security and environmental sustainability. A day before presenting the budget before...

OWSA Staff - 31 January 2022

Human rights

A special adviser to probe racism and discrimination at UN

A survey of UN staff in Geneva revealed that “more than one in three staff have personally experienced racial discrimination and/or have witnessed others...

Inter Press Service - 31 January 2022

Health

Dementia cases ‘set to almost triple by 2050’: study

A study published 6 January in The Lancet Public Health says the increase in dementia is largely due to population growth and ageing. Predicting...

SciDevNet - 31 January 2022

Agriculture

More evidence emerges of deadly weedicide in people in France

The weed-killing agro-chemical, glyphosate, has been found in over 99 per cent of samples collected in a study of 6,848 individuals in France, according...

OWSA Contributor - 31 January 2022

Civil society

WHO funding model ‘left world ill-prepared’ for COVID

Two letters, both signed by global health leaders and non-profits have called on the WHO leadership to review its funding strategy. The signatories have...

SciDevNet - 30 January 2022

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