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BARCELONA (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) - Under huge pressure from Covid-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the planet and societies are "flashing red". And now is the time to choose a safer, fairer path for human development, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Dec 15). "We are at an unprecedented moment in the history of humankind and in the history of our planet," it said in a report, urging efforts by governments, business and citizens to pursue a new kind of prog...

Covid-19 Has Exposed Inequalities in Short Time; Human Should Work With Nature: UNDP Report FOLLOW US ON: The COVID-19 pandemic took little time to expose the inequalities as well as weaknesses in social and economic systems, which call for a greater need to work with and not against the nature, the UNDP said in a report launched on Wednesday. The pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world but unless humans release their grip on nature, it will not be the last, according said the 2020 repor...

Humanitarian Action for Children 2021 - Mali Format HIGHLIGHTS Persistent insecurity in central and northern Mali has left over 287,000 people displaced.1 In addition, 718,000 children aged 6 to 59 months are suffering from acute malnutrition;2 1.2 million children require protection; and 1.4 million children need education support.3 The humanitarian crisis in Mali has been exacerbated by the effects of climate change and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has devastated th...

NIH observational study of coronavirus infection and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children begins l Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (teal and purple), isolated from a patient sampleNIAID An observational study has launched to evaluate the short- and long-term health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and to characteri...

Barely one in five Indians in the labour force is “skilled” according to the just released Human Development Report (HDR) 2020. With the figure at 21.2%, India is 129th among 162 countries for which this data is available. The countries closest to India in sharing this dubious distinction are Ivory Coast, Sudan, Liberia and Cameroon, most of which are classified in the low human development category. Others with similar level of skill in their labour force are mostly in sub-Saharan Africa....

India ranks 131 in United Nations human development index SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 03:39 PM IST Share Synopsis Life expectancy of Indians at birth in 2019 was 69.7 years while Bangladesh has a life expectancy of 72.6 years and Pakistan 67.3 years, the 2020 Human Development Report said. India slips to 131 in latest human development index ranking from 129 last year New Delhi: India dropped one spot to 131 among 189 countries in the 2020 human development index, according to a repor...

Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 03:55 PM MYT BY SHAHRIN AIZAT NOORSHAHRIZAM The report titled ‘The Next Frontier: Human Development in the Anthropocene’ provided details on how Malaysia has developed over the last 30 years. — Picture by Hari Anggara Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its Human Development Report 2020 earlier today, which saw Malaysia scoring 0.810 in th...

India’s scramble to create more beds when Covid struck is not surprising considering the fact that there are only 12 countries which fare worse than India when it comes to bed availability. India has just five beds for 10,000 Indians. The just released Human Development Report 2020 showed that out of 167 countries, India would rank 155th on bed availability. The countries with fewer beds to population ratio than India included Uganda, Senegal, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Nepal and Guatemala. ...

5 hospital beds/10k population: India ranks 155th in 167 © Provided by The Times of India India’s scramble to create more beds when Covid struck is not surprising considering the fact that there are only 12 countries which fare worse than India when it comes to bed availability. India has just five beds for 10,000 Indians. The just released Human Development Report 2020 showed that out of 167 countries, India would rank 155th on bed availability. The countries with fewer beds to population ...

4:27 PM MYT UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic, the latest crisis facing the world, will not be the last unless humans release their grip on nature, said a new UN report published Tuesday. According to the report titled "The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene," world leaders need to take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanitys progress will stall. "Humans wield more ...