Young India Network for Good Health

There was a spurt in suicides by farmers in Telangana last week. Worldwide  800,000  people commit suicide every year. Of these 1,35,000  [17%] are Indians! ] By: T.K Thomas,   Oct 24, 2017 Recently, an addiction prevention expert and activist  and chairman of  NADA India Foundation   Suneel Vatsyayan   who works on mental health issues was interacting with a large number of marginalized children in the Mangolpuri area of the National Capital organized by Dr.  A.V.Baliga Trust. As part of the session he showed them a recent television interview with popular Hindi film actress  Deepika Padukune . The focus of the programme was on the screen diva’s experience and views on depression. The children reacted differently and one of their unanimous reactions was their consternation at a celebrity like Deepika suffering from depression. It was beyond their comprehension as to how such a leading actor and daughter o...

“DRUG – FREE” FAMILIES IS THE WAY TO ENSURE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN TO BE PROTECTED FROM ILLICIT DRUGS (ie NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES)”. (What ASEAN, intergovernmental commissions/agencies, governmental bodies (GOs) and NGOs have done to ensure drug - free family, community, work place, schools, environment, nations) by DATIN MASNI MOHD ALI President of “BASMIDA” (national anti drug association), Brunei Darussalam for Work Group, 9 November 2012 on “ Family Panel: Easy to forgive, hard to forget and always afraid” at XXV WORLD CONFERENCE OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES 6-10 November 2012, Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel, Bali, Indonesia, with the theme “Individual growth and recovery through the Therapeutic Communities” 1. Definitions 2. Why do we need to control illicit drugs? 3. History 4. Challenge 5. Policy 6. Which one, drug-free or harm reduction 7. Human rights? 8. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and its Article 33 9. Childr...

Wives Revolt as India Election Booze Leaves Trail of Widows By Adi Narayan  May 12, 2014 A nita Sharma, founder of Belan Brigade, fourth from right, stands with residents as they campaign to stop political parties's practice of wooing voters with liquor handouts in the Shivpuri neighborhood of Ludhiana, Punjab, on April 27, 2014. Liquor, drugs and cash are distributed by most political parties to lure voters in Punjab, according to watchdog agency Association for Democratic Reforms. Photographer: Adi Narayan When Rajju Lal found her husband stumbling around in a drunken stupor on voting day in their Indian village five years ago, she corralled him at home and let him sleep it off on the floor. He never woke up. Shortly after he died, she discovered a stash in the house of more than 20 bottles of whiskey and local spirits that he’d hoarded after receiving them from political parties seeking votes in their village in the northern state of Punjab. Since then she’s str...

  On Human Rights Day IOGT International highlights the growing obstacles that corporations like Big Alcohol pose to the promotion and protection of Human Rights New York, USA, (December 10, 2013) -- The global achievements in Human Rights protection and promotion over the last 50 years, are today under attack by aggressive corporations. Abusing free trade agreements these corporations seek to undermine Human Rights accomplishments, in order to make it harder for governments to regulate harmful products and often-unethical operations. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention ‘of the peoples of the world’ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. In 1993, following the momentum of the World Conference on Human Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was adopted and the mandate of High Commissioner for the promotion and protection of all...