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Patients of Fabry disease in India are calling for equal recognition under the National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021. Advocacy group, Lysosomal Storage Disorders Society of India, have urged Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to provide guidelines for CoEs to treat all notified disease conditions, including Fabry disease. The rare disease is caused by enzyme deficiencies affecting the functionality of the heart and kidneys, with the diagnosis rate remaining low due to low awareness.
The first meeting of the ECSWG was held in Bengaluru from February 9-11. The third meeting will be held in Mumbai (May 21-23) and the fourth in Chennai (May 26-27). The ministerial meeting is expected to be held on July 28 in Chennai.
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Cracks have appeared in hundreds of houses of Joshimath, the gateway to some renowned pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib. Chamoli District Magistrate (DM) Himanshu Khurana on Sunday told PTI that Joshimath has been declared a landslide-subsidence zone and over 60 families living in uninhabitable houses have been moved to temporary relief centres.
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Such thinking has shaped the world European colonisation of other nations stemmed from the belief that they, and the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited them since time immemorial, were there for the taking.But more recently, a new idea of law has emerged rights of nature underpinned by the belief that the environment has inherent value and is worthy of the highest legal protections.
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The agreement was a significant step forward for environment protection, and enshined into international law the idea that we should live well in harmony with Mother Earth.For far too long humanity has paved over, fragmented, over-extracted and destroyed the natural world on which we all depend.
The Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-1990 introduced more measures to control forest disturbances and loss.These included establishing a system for national parks, nature reserves, wildlife sanctuaries and virgin jungles, adopting preventive approaches via environmental impact assessment reports and climate change mitigation measures.Forests are now recognised as carbon sinks, which dovetails with the national green growth initiative.The Twelfth Malaysia Plan 2021-2025 outlines the mainstreaming of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 in respect of forest management practices.