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Around one in three freshwater species are estimated to be at risk of extinction, according to a new report published by the world's leading conservationists. The report Fantastic Freshwater:...

Not a starting figure but the reality that the world now has 100 million displaced people who were forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution. The...

For every new billionaire created during the pandemic (one every 30 hours), nearly a million people are pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 at nearly the same rate, said Oxfam.

Global labour recovery has reversed with the number of working hours globally falling in the first quarter of 2022 to 3.8 per cent below the pre-crisis benchmark (fourth quarter of 2019), which...

More than two years into COVID-19 pandemic and compounded by overlapping global crises, the progress on the health-related SDGs is off track, according to a latest report. The countries...

The global economy is expected to grow 3.1 per cent in 2022, down from the 4.0 per cent forecast in January, largely due to Ukraine war that triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis...

Nearly 240 million children in the world today have some form of disability (higher than previous figures), which calls for shared responsibility, accountability and working together to ensure that all children, including...

COVID-19 has hit the learning of youngest children the hardest, especially in low-income countries, demanding the high need for actionable and evidence-based strategies to deliver quality Early Childhood Education (ECE). In the...

About 60 million people are living in internal displacement around the world at the end of 2021, which is up from 55 million a year earlier. The unprecedented figure is the result...

With Covid 19, alcohol consumption also increased. What about death due to alcohol consumption? A new study points out that death due to alcohol consumption increased during Covid times.