40% of the World’s People Affected by Water Scarcity: Report
A panel of 11 Heads of State and a Special Advisor has released a report: Making Every Drop Count: An Agenda for Water Action. It calls for a fundamental shift…
India to End TB by 2025: PM Narendra Modi
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, addressed Tuesday the inaugural session of the “END TB” summit in New Delhi. He expressed confidence that the Delhi End TB Summit would be a…
Female Genital Mutilation Is a Violation of Human Rights
Speaking a day ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the United Nations youth envoy underscored that the ghastly practice is a violation of…
India: 170 Million Children to Get Polio Drops
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, launched the Pulse Polio programme for 2018 by administering polio drops to children less than five years old, at the Rahstrapati Bhawan, on…
Environment: Pollution Causes 12.6 Million Deaths a Year
UN Environment (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed for a new collaboration to check environmental health risks that cause an estimated 12.6 million deaths a year. Mr.…
New Global Commitment to End Tuberculosis
According to WHO, 75 ministers have agreed to take urgent action to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030. The announcement came at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis…