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In the decade since the law was passed, the federal government and several states have introduced other laws that sometimes run counter to the Forest Rights Act.

The report was based on interviews with 15 Nepali workers who had worked at different McDonald's restaurants in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

A 2016 report by charity Oxfam showed that the wealth of the world's richest 62 people has risen by 44 percent since 2010, with almost half of the super-rich living in the United States.

The Forest Rights Act gives indigenous people and forest dwellers rights to manage and govern their traditional forests and resources.

About 600 million people use dirty or crowded communal toilets and pit or bucket latrines, while some 100 million have no facilities at all, it said.

The renovated building will offer women-focused groups everything from offices and shared meeting space to on-site child care and a rooftop garden.

Registering a complaint on the app will send an email to the Maharashtra State Child Rights Protection Commission, which will direct it to police or a child-rights charity.

Efforts to end the deadly disease are under threat as mosquitoes become increasingly resistant to drugs and insecticides.

Overall, Iceland and Finland ranked highest among 144 nations measured on progress in equality in education, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.

India banned the practice of bonded labour in 1976, but the country is still home to 11.7 million bonded labourers, according to the International Labour Organisation.

"Emergency" is phase four of a five-point scale used by food agencies, where five is famine.

By 2050, 2.5 billion people, a bigger population than China and India combined, will move into the world's cities, said the World Resources Institute.