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    UN’s “No-Fly List” on Sexual Harassment Falls Short, Complains Rights Group

    Present and past employees are continuing to raise the alarm about the wide-scale under-reporting of sexual harassment and abuse across UN institutions. There is...
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    Solving India’s Sanitation Scourge

    Three years since the alleged success of the sanitation intervention, the ruling BJP repeatedly labels the campaign a ‘success’. The party now mentions open...
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    The World Is Melting Down and the Cause is Corruption – The G20 Needs to Take Action

    Despite the earnest anti-corruption commitments made by G20 countries annually, follow-up and delivery on these commitments is a challenge. The group needs to strengthen...
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    Rs 2,516 Crore to Computerise Last Point Farm Cooperative Credit System

    Presently, PACS account for 41 per cent or over 3 crore farmers of the kisan credit card loans given by all entities in the...
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    Human Rights Defenders Write to Guterres; Say Next OHCHR Must be a Rights Champion

    The post of High Commissioner should be filled by someone of high moral standing and personal integrity, and who is independent and impartial and...
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    NITI, RMI Report Says Green Hydrogen Critical to India’s Net-Zero Ambitions

    With emerging global momentum on hydrogen, India can situate this decarbonisation opportunity not just within the context of a low-carbon economy but also as...
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    NIUA C-Cube, WRI India launch the India Forum for Nature-Based Solutions

    Ecosystem-based services and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) are fast emerging as cost-effective and sustainable ways to address climate change induced challenges such as heat, urban flooding, air...
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    Bangladesh Flood Victims Cry for Relief

    Authorities claim that the flood situation is getting back normal. But voluntary organisations complain that the pace of relief distribution has been slow despite...
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