'The world has nearly two billion 10 to 24 year olds; of these, 86 percent live in developing countries. While much literature on young people's health focuses on the problems and risks they face, there is a great deal of evidence that most get through the transition to adulthood without significant behavioral, social, or emotional difficulties. In fact, among this age group, positive changes in overall health have clearly outweighed the negative changes. Society must harness the energies of you more...
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'IFC and the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie of Harvard University, have released a consultation draft of the research paper they commissioned on foreign direct investment and human rights. Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights aims to raise awareness of the relationship between protecting investor rights and the host state's human rights obligations under international agreements.
The publication examines the imp more...
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Background and context: Rural Uganda is a difficult place for women. Many women are the primary providers for households, either responsible for doing much of the agriculture work, or running a small business. Despite this role as providers, men, not women, usually have access to credit and local business exchanges.
The Uganda chapter of the Council for the Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa (CEEWA) tries to rectify this problem and help women find the financial resources t more...
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Information is a strategic variable in all negotiations. Those who have it enjoy a decisive advantage over those who do not have it in determining the outcome, not merely in business deals, but in all matters of governance. So, who should determine the outcome in terms of the quality of governance - the bureaucracy, a handful of Cabinet ministers or the population at large at the receiving end of bad governance? The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 gave an unequivocal answer: the power of more...
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A retired Army brigadier who was posted with the Ordnance wing has been booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The agency raided his properties in Delhi and Pune and claimed to have seized about Rs.12 lakh in cash besides cars, jewellery and documents of properties.
The CBI registered a case against Brig. Samir Barun Roy on Saturday, the day he retired from service. The agency found that while being post more...
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'Domestic wastewater management, including sewage treatment, requires support from government, the public and the private sector. Sewage treatment has been seen as an internal household issue. If each house has a latrine, sewage treatment must be adequate. If the latrine is connected to a septic tank, so much the better. Yet data tell a disturbing story of large numbers of people suffering from diarrhea, and polluted groundwater. Research shows that the root cause of these problems is sewage. De more...
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'A destructive combination of earthquakes, floods, droughts and other hazards make South Asia the world's most disaster-prone region. The effects are aggravated by climate change, unsuitable social and development policies, and environmental degradation. The effect is to slow or block development and keep millions trapped in poverty.
Oxfam's experience shows that successful disaster risk reduction policies, integrated into development work, save lives and money, making vulnerable communities more...
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