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The proportion of young women in Nepal who married before turning 18 fell from 37% in 2014 to 28% in 2024–25, according to a UNICEF brief. The decline shows that child marriage can become less common, although progress has largely stalled among the poorest girls.
Source: myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com
Read the original story →After decades caring for her mother, who lives with schizophrenia, Neha Kirpal helped build mental-health services informed by the support her family had struggled to find. She reports that Amaha, which she co-founded, and its partner Children First now have over 300 clinicians and provide about 40,000 sessions a month in 18 languages.
Source: The Better India
Read the original story →In a three-month Ghana pilot, 64 community health officers used a simple checklist during 1,932 routine home visits, recording 1,117 observations of suspected neglected tropical diseases. The findings suggest everyday outreach can help identify overlooked illness, although these were not confirmed diagnoses and getting referred patients to clinics remained a challenge.
Source: bioengineer.org
Read the original story →South Africa’s Constitutional Court has rejected a hunters’ association’s challenge to animal wellbeing provisions in biodiversity legislation. The decision preserves the requirement to consider animals’ wellbeing when making decisions about how wildlife is managed, conserved and used.
Source: Daily Maverick
Read the original story →Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified the host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst yet observed, dating it to just 3 billion years after the big bang. The small, star-forming galaxy offers evidence about what could produce these mysterious flashes, though their origins remain unconfirmed.
Source: NASA
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