Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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Despite constituting almost half of the qualified health workforce in India, female health workers face a...
Friday, November 6, 2020
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A pandemic demands concerted efforts to quickly safeguard the world’s populations. But when the complex web...
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Africa, Liberia, Asia, Afghanistan, Laos
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
The European Committee of Social Rights published its latest conclusions regarding the rights of women, children, families and migrants on 24.03.2020. The Committee is the body responsible for monitoring compliance in the States party to the European...
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Ante el estado de emergencia del país, frente a la pandemia del coronavirus, la vicepresidenta de la República, Margarita Cedeño, anunció este jueves la puesta en marcha de un plan de contingencia de protección social para los dominicanos que...
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America, Dominican Republic
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Initiatives such as comprehensive training and engaging with and mobilising communities have helped boost the performance of anganwadi centres in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, we found, as part of a project to document innovations in maternal and child...
Saturday, February 8, 2020
OPINION: More than 100 years ago, the International Labor Organization adopted the Maternity Protection Convention 1919 (No 3) suggesting 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, free healthcare during and after pregnancy, protection from dismissals and...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The 2018 Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) Report has revealed that, 156,452 households out of 184,125 in the Upper East Region do not benefit from government’s social protection programmes. The programmes include; LEAP, Free school uniforms...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
BLOG: On a recent visit to India, I noticed a few kids frolicking on the streets of New Delhi. Kumari (name changed), who was playing with her younger brothers, looked like any other six-year-old—except she was 11. A stunted child, not tall enough for...
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Africa, Senegal, America, Peru, Asia, India, Pakistan
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, that it would support Kaduna State Government to implement Child-Sensitive Social Protection programmes in 2020. Dr Zakari Adam, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Kaduna stated this in Kaduna on...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
BLOG: India has one of the highest paid maternity benefits for working women in the world. But that law means nothing to most women in the country. Just 49% of those eligible for the central government maternity benefits scheme received any...