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Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande interviews Katherine Semrau, an epidemiologist who leads the Better Birth program at Ariadne Labs, about how to improve maternal and newborn health worldwide in a special edition of PS Editors’ Podcast. To find out more, click here.

This brief documents the work of the State Nutrition Missions in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, identifying lessons learned and policy recommendations moving forward. Results for Development partnered with Amaltas Consulting and UNICEF-India to deliver this brief. Background India is home to about a...

This video shares the experience of a girl that was forced to marry, but tried to evade it and how the community responded to her. UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles explains how the European Commission supports UNICEF programmes that help end child marriage and aid families who do not want their...

This 18-year-old girl runs a newspaper that gives Delhi’s “street children” a voice A newspaper called “Balaknama,” which mean voices of children, provides an outlet for more than 10,000 children living in poverty to have a voice. Chandni, an 18-year-old girl in Delhi, runs the paper. Find this...

This documentary film reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive. ...

Watch as Salaam Baalak Trust volunteers look for homeless kids in need of help on the streets of New Delhi and learn more about its life-changing programs. ...

Every 5 minutes a child arrives at a railway platform in India alone and vulnerable. Running away from poverty, abuse and neglect, hitching rides on over-crowded trains to the big cities, hoping to find a better life. The dangers they find on the streets are often much worse than those they run away...

In India, as in other countries, the rise in the number of street and working children is associated with the phenomenon of rapid urban growth, especially of sprawling slums and shanty towns. The predicament of the urban child "in difficult circumstances" is inextricable from these conditions of...