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'Get us out of this hellhole': SOS messages by UNRWA staff in Gaza

The 13,000-strong staff working with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is terrified and tired and described the situation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as a hellhole, a spokeswoman for the agency said. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is the largest UN agency working in the Gaza Strip, both in terms of the size of its operations as well as the number of staff. The 13,000-strong UNRWA staff in Gaza includes teachers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, warehouse workers, logisticians, technicians and drivers. We have a very, very big operation in the Gaza Strip. What we hear from our staff is that they are terrified and they're tired. They want all of this to come to an end and the message that we're getting is: Get us out of this hellhole. This has become hell', UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma told reporters here through video conference on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Touma said the messages of SOS' have

'Get us out of this hellhole': SOS messages by UNRWA staff in Gaza
Updated On : 17 Oct 2023 | 9:51 AM IST

Pakistan drops 7 places to 161st rank in Human Development Index

Pakistan has dropped seven places in the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 161 out of 192 countries in the 2021-2022 period, according to a UNDP report

Pakistan drops 7 places to 161st rank in Human Development Index
Updated On : 09 Sep 2022 | 12:59 PM IST

India slips a spot in UN's human development index, ranks at 131 now

Human Development Index is the measure of a nation's health, education, and standards of living.

India slips a spot in UN's human development index, ranks at 131 now
Updated On : 17 Dec 2020 | 1:36 AM IST

Closing the gender gap

The GII has been criticised for its complexity and difficulty in interpretation or understanding

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Updated On : 07 Mar 2020 | 1:21 AM IST

Ranked 129, India marginally improves in human development index in 2018

The overall index, given in the 2019 HDI report of UNDP, showed that India scored 0.647 in 2018, as against 0.643 in the previous year. The score is calculated in the range of zero to one

Ranked 129, India marginally improves in human development index in 2018
Updated On : 10 Dec 2019 | 12:12 AM IST

Human development bottom up

A revolution in strategy is needed for the New India

Human development bottom up
Updated On : 17 Oct 2017 | 11:22 PM IST