Half the global population not fully covered by essential health services: Report

Two billion people experienced financial hardship due to out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on health in 2019

Excessive wealth is speeding us towards climatic disaster

People with limited income, who already have tenuous access to food, shelter and water, will have to face the brunt of climate change

Davos 2024: World will take over two centuries to end poverty, but just a decade to get its 1st trillionaire

Men globally possess $105 trillion more in wealth than women, says Oxfam report

AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic

In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance  

West Africa’s falling fish stocks: Illegal Chinese trawlers, climate change and artisanal fishing fleets to blame

Current west African coastal fishing crisis in the Gulf of Guinea is complex because it has multiple and reinforcing origins

Lack of budget, high demand slow MGNREGS

Deletions keep millions jobless despite the scheme seeing highest demand in a decade

Health must be fast-tracked for 2030

The world needs more and better skilled health workers to attain the SDG targets and continue to foster global health beyond 2030

World Health Assembly approves draft resolution on health action plan for indigenous people

Global plan should focus on reproductive, maternal and adolescent health, resolution highlights

2023 in a blink: How did PM Modi’s biggest 4 ‘castes’ — poor, youth, women and farmers — fare this year

PM Modi first made the statement on November 30, 2023 during Opposition calls for nationwide caste census

India’s richest 5% spent 8-10 times its poorest; agri household expenditure lower than rural avg for 1st time: NSSO

Household spending increased since 1999-2000; disadvantaged sections in rural, urban India spent lowest

In Africa, climate change has exacerbated modern slavery & government response is poor

More than 3.1 million Africans are in forced marriage and more than 3.8 million in forced labour

In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS

Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme

UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions

May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact

What is ‘noma’, the latest addition to WHO’s list of neglected tropical diseases

The severe gangrenous disease of mouth and face has 90% mortality rate and is associated with extreme poverty, malnutrition

Launch of State of India’s Environment 2023: In Figures — what to expect & how to register

The e-book will be released in an online event at 12 noon on June 4, 2023

World Environment Day 2023: Rural India bears the brunt of climate change

Climate change is a global challenge with local implications; important to build coping mechanisms for rural communities

As told to Parliament (February 5, 2024): Over 400 MLD industrial effluents discharged into Ganga and Yamuna daily

All that was discussed in the House through the day