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17-year-old Sanjana Runwal spearheads activities of the Clean Up Foundation, an NGO that drives initiatives directed at enhancing the lives of sanitation workers of Mumbai. The Clean-Up Foundation has developed a home loan app for them. This Diwali, she aims to brighten up the lives of the sanitation workers by helping them obtain their...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has released a new report that highlights that the climate targets submitted by countries party to the 2015 Paris Agreement are insufficient to prevent global warming. The NDC Synthesis Report released just ahead of the global climate summit in Glasgow has also indicated that the progress...

India accounts for more than 25% of the world’s childhood cancer. Yet we have a Poor Access2Care ratio. Less than 34% children make it to a cancer centre. The top 10 centres see no more than 13% to 15% of children. For this reason, survival rates are less than 20%. Launched in 2018, the WHO...

In the run-up to the United Nations (UN) Day on October 24th and as part of The CSR Journal’s new series aimed at understanding and exploring various bodies and agencies of the UN, let us explore UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls,...

Premier academic and research institute IIT Madras has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with media publication The CSR Journal for a long-term partnership. As a part of this MoU, IIT Madras will be the official Knowledge Partner for the upcoming ‘The CSR Journal Excellence Awards 2021’. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) has been...

In the run-up to the United Nations (UN) Day on October 24th and as part of The CSR Journal’s new UN-Agencies series, let us explore United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a special program of the United Nations (UN) devoted to aiding national efforts to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children. UNICEF was...

In the run-up to the United Nations (UN) Day on October 24th and as part of The CSR Journal’s new UN-Agencies series, let us explore World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialized agency for Health. Founded in 1948, the headquarters of the WHO is situated in Geneva, Switzerland. The agency has 194 Member States,...

In the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021, India stood at 101st position of 116 countries. The annual report jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe saw India slip from its 2020 position of 94th. About the Global Hunger Index GHI is published every year since 2006 in the month of October. The 2021 edition...

Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use the tech giant’s apps and technologies to connect with friends and family, to further embrace their communities, and to help them expand their businesses. Most popular platforms and products in the stable...

Few people know, for example, that the first mainframe computer to come to India was provided by UNDP, upon request from an Indian government that was already saying, back in the 1970s, that “computers are the future of India.” But the computer itself was just a tiny seed. It was the hard work and...

Gender bias is deeply ingrained in the minds of people right from a very young age. It is not uncommon for people to think that appropriate toys for a male child include cars, trucks or robots, but that of a female child includes dolls, makeup sets or kitchen sets. In order to fight against...

IFAD was one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The conference was organized by the United Nations in response to the food crises of the early 1970s, when global food shortages were causing widespread famine and malnutrition, primarily in the Sahelian countries of Africa. World leaders realized that food insecurity...