Food law to be new poverty benchmark

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Food law to be new poverty benchmark: A fresh set of multi-dimensional indicators - not the official poverty line - will be used to identify 46% of all Indians who will make up a 'priority' class for highly subsidised food entitlements, food minister KV Thomas has said. people than ...
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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...
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