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Low women’s empowerment and large gender gaps are commonplace in many parts of the world, the UN’s lead agencies on gender equality and international development said in a new report published on Tuesday. Out of 114 countries studied , none has ...

Mandela’s legacy thrives as todays blueprint for prisoners’ rights

Womens empowerment is shockingly low worldwide. At the current rate of progress, UN women predict that it will take 286 years to achieve global gender equality.

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NEW DELHI - Nearly 135 million people, or around 10 per cent of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday (July 17). Rural areas saw the strongest fall in poverty, according to the study, which used the United Nations' Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), based on 12 indicators such as malnutrition,...

The ninth edition of the annual Youth Leadership Programme sponsored by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Bahrain closed on Monday, the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported.The seven-w

In a major step forward, a replacement vessel has sailed from Djibouti to replace the decaying super oil tanker FSO Safer off Yemen's Red Sea coast, a UN spokesman said."The UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the decaying ...

Poverty has traditionally been measured using just one criterion – money. Since 2021, the Indian government’s think tank has been doing it a little differently, taking a leaf out the UN’s book