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    All That Glitter Is Not Gold – UN Trade Body Calls for Halting Cryptocurrency Rise in Developing Countries

    A series of policy briefs brought out by UNCTAD call curbing cryptocurrencies in developing nations as these come with financial challenges, from challenging countries’...
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    Making Hydropower Plants More Sustainable

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    2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report: Repurpose Subsidies to Reduce Rising Hunger

    The report projects that if current trends continue, nearly 670 million people or eight per cent of the world population will still be undernourished...
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    Child Labour

    Technology Helps Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs

    Internet and digital platforms are used by criminal gangs to recruit, exploit and control the victims of their human trafficking lucrative business. Among other...
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    Health Policy

    Monkeypox Concern Heightened Only After it Became A ‘Northern’ Disease, Says WHO 

    Castigating developed countries for not paying heed to diseases prevalent in the global south until these hit home, the WHO has urged developed nations...
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    Democracy

    The Politics of the Hangman’s Noose: Judge, Jury and Executioner

    The death penalty is inconsistent with the right to life and the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...
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    COVID-19

    Violence, Unsafe Water ‘World’s Biggest Risks’, Says Global Survey

    World Risk Poll says that a third of the 125,000 people it surveyed across 121 countries said that they felt ‘less safe’. Globally, the...
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    Abortion in Canada — Legal for Decades But Hindered by Stigma

    Abortion access differs by province partly because healthcare in Canada is a provincial responsibility. According to 2019 figures, Quebec has the highest number of access...
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