Countries commit to tackling non-communicable diseases
A UN declaration, which was signed by several heads of states, asks food manufacturers to reduce salt, free sugars and saturated and industrially …
UN human rights unit faces financial crisis as 149 countries don’t pay dues
This has made six of the UN’s 10 treaty bodies cancel their sessions this year
ग्लोबल वार्मिंग में भारत का योगदान बहुत कम: पीएम
संयुक्त राष्ट्र जनरल असेंबली को संबोधित करते हुए प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने पर्यावरण के प्रति भारत की प्रतिबद्धता दोहराई
What happens to our excreta? Shit Flow Diagrams will help you track
Open-defecation free status is fine, but ensuring sustainable management of our faecal sludge is crucial
Democratising the global food chain
From corporatisation to cooperatives
Rio draft text revives common but differentiated responsibility
Calls for doing away with green protectionism through trade barriers while dealing with environmental matters
UN Security Council steps into climate change
Calls attention to potential threat of climate on international peace
On WHO agenda: a global vaccine action plan
Health activists say new policy may not address the weaknesses in ongoing routine immunisation programmes and would flood poor countries with new …
40 per cent of Europe’s sharks and rays face extinction risk: IUCN
Conservation body’s newly released ‘Red List’ says 7.5 per cent of continent’s marine species are at risk of extinction
Include disabled in UN’s post-MDG development agenda, say activists
ÔÇÿMillennium Development Goals with its deadline of 2015 has done little to improve the condition of the disabledÔÇÖ
