Combating Child Sex Abuse
In a first, the World Health Organisation has formulated clinical guidelines on responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused. The guidelines put forward recommendations for the frontline…
The Moscow Declaration to End TB
Declaration Over 120 national delegations participating in the Conference adopted the “Moscow Declaration to End TB". Aim: The aim of the First WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB in…
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016
Context: The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to junk the recommendations of a parliamentary committee report which was the first ever government document to recognise the…
One in 10 medicines fake; diseases becoming untreatable: WHO
An estimated one in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries like India is either "substandard or falsified", says a new research report from the World Health Organisation…
India unlikely to cut malaria burden by half in 2020: WHO
Context: India accounted for 6% of global malaria cases and 7% of deaths caused by it in 2016, according to a report released on Wednesday by the World Health Organisation…
India recorded 6% of global malaria cases in 2016: WHO
Context: India recorded 6% of the world’s new malaria cases in 2016 which stood at 216 million, according to the World Malaria Report 2017 by World Health Organization (WHO). The…
WHO releases guidelines on child sex abuse
Context: In a first, the World Health Organisation has formulated clinical guidelines on responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused. About the guideline: The guidelines put forward…
Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendras
The main objective of the scheme is to increase the care, protection and development of women across the country. Improving the child sex ratio, survival of new born girl child,…
‘Prevention of torture bill, 2017
Context: The Law Commission has recommended the Union government to consider ratifying the 1984 UN Convention against torture to tide over difficulties in extraditing criminals from foreign countries due to the absence…
Acting against torture
Context: “Torture is a wound in the soul so painful that sometimes you can almost touch it, but it is also such intangible that there is no way to heal…