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Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Oct 13, 2025 05:32 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal Across the planet, a quiet emergency is taking root. UNICEF estimates that 12 million girls marry every year before they turn 18. Progress is being made, but global momentum towards ending child marriage is slowing down as a result…
October 10, 2025 marks the World Mental Health Day and the theme this year – “Access to Services: Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies (Disasters)” highlights an issue that is often pushed to the side. When disasters strike – earthquakes, storms, pandemics, conflicts – the need for mental health services rises. The loss, grief, dislocation,…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Oct 08, 2025 09:45 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The Gender Snapshot 2025 feels less like a lookback and more like a moment of reckoning: as we head into the final five years before the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Education DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Aug 29, 2025 02:52 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal In the realm of international development, the Social Development Goals (SDGs) are highly regarded. Some indicators of the progress that SDGs are making are positive and still, some are stagnant. This highlights where research, policy, and funding…
Photo Credit: Adda247 Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 15, 2025 05:08 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik India’s poverty story has often been told as one of progress. Over the last two decades, government welfare schemes, exponential economic growth, and financial inclusion have reduced the share of people living in extreme poverty, also defined internationally…
