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The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) with 175 member countries, signed a mandate which makes it legally binding for the signatories to end plastic pollution.
The Global Plastics Treaty will be drafted and ratified in the next two years.  The mandate recommends measures to tackling plastic production and addressing the toxic burden of plastic.

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Pew Research Center, a Washington DC-based non-profit released a report titled ‘How Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society’, based on a survey of 29,999 Indian adults.
As per the report, while 55% of Indians believed that men and women make equally good political leaders, nine-in-ten Indians agree with the view that a wife must always obey her husband. 34% said that child care should be handled primarily by women. 43% believed that earning an income is the obligation of men.

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In May 2008, 107 states concluded an international treaty prohibiting the cluster weapons, named the ‘Convention on Cluster Munitions’.
Recently, Russia has been accused for using cluster bombs and vacuum bombs in the ongoing war against Ukraine. As per the convention, the cluster munitions release explosive sub-munitions each weighing less than 20 kilograms, and includes those explosive sub-munitions. They are non-precision weapons designed to injure or kill human beings over a large area.

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According to the official data the number of children affected due to Covid in India is 1,53,827. This is not restricted to children who lost their parents or caregivers.
Responding to a recent study by Lancet, which claimed that 19 lakh children in India lost a parent or caregiver to Covid 19, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said that the findings have no correlation to ground realities.

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Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated the 2nd edition of the ‘Roorkee Water Conclave’ today at IIT, Roorkee.
It is being jointly organised by Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and National Institute of Hydrology, focusing on the theme, ‘Water Security for Sustainable Development’. National Institute of Hydrology is an autonomous society under Ministry of Jal Shakti.