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YUVA awards Certificate in Moral and Civic Education to 47 Bhujoharry College Students
The YUVA Academy completed the Moral and Civic Education Programme successfully with 47 students of the MEDCO Alex Bhujoharry Girls College. The 10-hour programme was facilitated by YUVA Academy Trainer, Mr Kris Padayachy. YUVA’s aim behind delivering the Moral and Civic Education (MCE) programme to students across Mauritius is to imbibe in them proper values,…
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Ageing in Mauritius: Access to Justice
The ageing of the global population is rapidly increasing. According to the WHO, “between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of people aged 60 years and over should rise from 605 million to 2 billion”. In Mauritius, this situation is not much different from other parts of the globe. In the period 1972-2015, the percentage of…
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Ageing in Mauritius: Social Protection and Social Security
The following report deals with a normative input about “Ageing” in Mauritius concerning the sub-items “Social Protection and Social Security” in regards to the Open-ended Working Group “Tenth working session” of the UN (New York, 15–18 April 2019). According to the ‘Mauritian population (live) clock’ made by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social…