Distress Migration and Persistent Child Labour in India
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Child labour continues to be a critical issue in India, affecting millions of children and undermining their rights, education, health, and well-being. Despite legal frameworks and policy initiatives...
IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic I...
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the subject of healthcare to the forefront. As such, it becomes pertinent to ask the question that why some countries are doing better than others in dealing with...
As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, I am reminded of the indigenous group Boti and their remote, tiny kingdom in West Timor, Indonesia. When I visited them in 2017, I was in awe...
Child labour continues to be a critical issue in India, affecting millions of children and undermining their rights, education, health, and well-being. Despite legal frameworks and policy initiatives aimed at eliminating it, socio-economic vulnerabilities, poverty, distress-driven migration, and weak enforcement mechanisms continue to sustain the practice, particularly in informal and hazardous se...
IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Machine Learning (ML). The initiative demonstrated the suitability of porting public health data on a GIS platform to get good insights into the distr...
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the subject of healthcare to the forefront. As such, it becomes pertinent to ask the question that why some countries are doing better than others in dealing with this crisis? Does the answer lie in the difference in the healthcare system of various countries? In this article, we try to answer this question by looking at some of the features of the healthcare s...