India’s first "Migration Monitoring System" launched.
- The first Migration Monitoring System of India has been launched in Mumbai with an aim to provide updated information on migrant pregnant women, lactating mothers and children instantly on a single system.
- The system was launched by the Maharashtra Women and Child Development Minister, Mangalprabhat Lodha.
- The system was developed by the Department of WCD.
- It will track the movements of vulnerable seasonal migrant beneficiaries through unique identification numbers.
WHO launched One Health Joint Plan of Action.
- One Health Joint Plan of Action was launched by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO), and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).
- Aim: To create a framework to integrate systems and capacity to collectively better prevent, and respond to health threats.
- This plan will be applicable from 2022 to 2026 to reduce the health issues at the international, regional, and national levels.
PM launched Mission LiFE in Gujarat.
- PM Modi has launched Mission LiFE in the presence of UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres at the Statue of Unity, Ekta Nagar, Kevadia, Gujarat.
- Mission LiFE refers to Lifestyle for Environment.
- Aim: To protect and preserve the environment.
- This global movement will showcase sustainable goals and climate actions taken by countries and individuals around the world.
- The UN Secretary-General and PM Modi have also launched booklet, logo, and tagline of Mission LiFE.
Honesty Shop launched for school students in Ernakulam, Kerala.
- Honesty shops has been launched in the Ernakulam district of Kerala for students up to Class 12.
- This initiative was launched by the Student police cadet.
- Aim: To cultivate valuable lessons on trust, truth and integrity for students.
- There will be no salesperson in these shops and neither will they have a shopkeeper present.
- Students can choose items they need and drop the money for each item inside the collection box kept on a table.
FATF adds Myanmar to list of high-risk countries.
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to the list of high-risk countries, which is known as Black List.
- Reason: Strategic deficiencies in regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing.
- Myanmar is the third country to be added in this list along with North Korea and Iran, which have been on the high-risk list since 2020.
- President of FATF: T. Raja Kumar.
- FATF HQ: Paris, France.
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