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A blot on the Kerala Model #healthcare

  Recent diphtheria deaths in Malappuram are the price we pay for a distorted health development strategy. By Dr B. EKBAL   THE recent spread of the vaccine-preventable infectious disease diphtheria and the consequent death of two students of Arabic… Continue Reading →

A Great Victory of Fishing Communities- NGT scraps Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) on Nayachar Island.

Nayachar NGT Order-16-9-2015 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has finally ordered scrapping of the proposed Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) on Nayachar Island.    13 Fishermen Cooperative Societies, operating in the Nayachar island, moved the NGT Eastern Bench at Kolkata against… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – ‘60% city youth feel same-sex relations is a personal choice’

  More than half of the city’s youth thinks same-sex relationships are a personal preference, found a recent survey . It also found that one-third of the youth said they would opt for a livein relationship.The research was carried out… Continue Reading →

US Strike kills 19 in ‘ Doctors without borders ‘ Hospital #WTFnews

        US STRIKE KILLS 19 IN ‘DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS’ HOSPITAL MSF facility hit by US airstike MSF facility hit by US airstike NEW DELHI: United States President Barack Obama has promised a “full investigation” into an airstrike that… Continue Reading →

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Highlights Fracking’s Threat to Human Rights

Protesters at the Stop the Frack Attack march in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2012. (Photo: Ernesto Brown)    Damien Short, Anna Grear, Tom Kerns and Simona L. Perry | Truthout | October 2, 2015   “The needs of public conscience can become a recognized… Continue Reading →

#GandhiJayanti- Ram Rajya the nightmare of Gandhi

By S Anand October 2 is not a bad occasion to rethink the Mahatma. In the Indian subcontinent, history is about myth-making and our selfproclaimed secular historians jostle with the right-wing in this business. Myths are made anew every day:… Continue Reading →

The Ugly Underbelly of Make in India

  A shocking new report on the automotive sector questions whether manufacturing in India can ever deliver on its promises without offering a safe environment for workers BY GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGAR New Delhi: With the Indian auto industry – which produced 23.37… Continue Reading →

India – Lesbian love under attack in Kanpur 

Piyush Shrivastava   |    |   Mail Today  |   Lucknow,Posted by Dishank Purohit | UPDATED 08:18 IST The lesbian couple fear they will be killed by their parents. Two girls from Kanpur, who have decided to live together, are being harassed by the police for strange reasons. The… Continue Reading →

LGBTI people’s health and human rights

Wednesday, 30 September 2015 In February 2015, a Regional Dialogue on LGBTI Rights and Health in Asia-Pacific was held in Bangkok, Thailand. It brought together more than 200 representatives of governments, development partners, national human rights institutions, lesbian, gay, bisexual,… Continue Reading →

Pakistan – Maternal and neonatal health: The need for family planning

Speakers talk about method for healthy spacing between pregnancies. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: More than 95 per cent of postpartum women do not want another child for at least two years, yet only 40 per cent are practising family planning methods, said… Continue Reading →

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