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    Disaster Management

    The Challenges Facing the World’s Fifth Largest Economy

    India must urgently integrate population planning into climate change initiatives and sustainable development goals to forge long-term policies that protect our planet.
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    Asia Pacific

    Adding Life to Years – Demographic Change in Asia and the Pacific

    The size of the world’s population in 2100 is now expected to be six per cent lower—or 700 million fewer—than anticipated a decade ago....
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    News

    Sri Lanka: Concerns Raised as Death Rate Exceeds Birth Rate

    Meanwhile, a recent report by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has also reported a 0.6 per cent drop in the population of Sri...
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    Bangladesh

    South Asian Women, Girls Need Responsive Legal System to Gender Violence

    Long delays in medical examinations, police investigations, prosecutions, and trials are widespread. Survivors often have difficulties filing cases with the police and face community...
    Inter Press Service -
    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Gender Ratio Tilts Towards Women for the First Time Ever

    Bangladesh’s total population increased from 14.4 crore in 2011 to 16.51 crore in 2022. The country recorded an average annual population growth rate of...
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    Gender

    NFHS 5: Why the Headlines Cheering Low Fertility Rate in India are Misleading

    Perhaps the only thing worth paying attention to in the TFR story is that the overall decline has been championed and led by Muslim...
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    Climate change

    Population and Development Commission: ‘Perfect Storm’ of Crises Take Shape

    Opening its fifty-fifth session under the theme ‘Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth,’ marks success for a body that...
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    Governance

    Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?

    The idea of a ranking on happiness risks defeating the purpose of the gigantic and noble effort of better understanding how we can be...
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    Pakistan’s Silent Epidemic: Nine Million Hepatitis C Cases Fuel Race Against 2030 WHO Deadline

    Pakistan’s response positions the country as both a high-burden test case and a potential model for elimination.
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    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
    Animals and wildlife

    Bangladesh’s Vanishing Tigers: 189 Left in the Race Against Extinction

    Worldwide, stronger protection has helped push tiger numbers up from a low of roughly 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,800 today.

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    Disaster Management

    Pakistan’s Silent Epidemic: Nine Million Hepatitis C Cases Fuel Race Against 2030 WHO Deadline

    Pakistan’s response positions the country as both a high-burden test case and a potential model for elimination.
    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
    Disaster Management

    Pakistan’s Silent Epidemic: Nine Million Hepatitis C Cases Fuel Race Against 2030 WHO Deadline

    Pakistan’s response positions the country as both a high-burden test case and a potential model for elimination.
    Animals and wildlife

    Bangladesh’s Vanishing Tigers: 189 Left in the Race Against Extinction

    Worldwide, stronger protection has helped push tiger numbers up from a low of roughly 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,800 today.

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