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Abdul Rahman
Saudi-led War on Yemen Completes Five Disastrous Years
27 Mar 2020
Intervention by the Saudi-led coalition, which is supported by the US and others, has led to what the United Nations has called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis of the century” in Yemen.
Evelyn Leopold
UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
22 Mar 2020
Bumping elbows at the United Nations.
Newsclick Report
One in Five Youths Worldwide Excluded from Education, Jobs and Training: ILO Report
14 Mar 2020
Of these, two-thirds are young women, making them more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected by the changing conditions in the global labour market.
Ram Puniyani
Why India’s ‘Internal Matter’ Argument Has to Fail
13 Mar 2020
India’s divisive new citizenship framework doesn’t fit with its claims to global acclaim.
Prudhviraj Rupawat
India Misinvoiced Rs 6.14 Lakh Crore Worth Trade Transactions with Global Partners in 2017: Report
04 Mar 2020
According to a study by Global Financial Integrity, during 2008 to 2017, India reported an average mismatch of its trade with global partners to the tune of USD 78 billion or Rs 5.7 lakh crore.
Anwesha Borthakur
Why Electronic Waste Is an Urgent Pollution Concern
23 Feb 2020
The volume of E-waste produced is equivalent to almost 4,500 Eiffel Towers and enough to form a line covering more than 28,000 km from New York to Bangkok and back.
Newsclick & Peoples Dispatch
Profiteering from War-Crime? UN Shames 112 Companies
13 Feb 2020
In its ongoing session, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released a list of 112 companies operating from illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian lands.
Peoples Dispatch
Sri Lankan Government Admits 10,000 ‘Missing’ Tamils were Killed in Violence
25 Jan 2020
Thousands of Tamils who had been categorized as ‘disappeared’ have now been declared dead by the Sri Lankan authorities . This is the first such admission by the Sri Lankan government since the civil…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
India Far from Achieving SDGs to Eradicate Poverty, Hunger, and Inequality
11 Jan 2020
India performed worse in 2019 for several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with scores lower than that of 2018, according to the SDG Index 2019-20 released by the NITI Aayog just before 2019…
PTI
Kerala Tops NITI Aayog’s SDG Index, Bihar Worst Performer
30 Dec 2019
Among UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, nutrition and gender continue to be problem areas for India.