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India brings discriminatory treatment in South Africa before the UN
📅 22 Juni 1946India requested that South Africa’s treatment of people of Indian origin be placed on the United Nations General Assembly agenda. Domestic resistance gained an international diplomatic channel. This...
The United Nations condemns discrimination against Indians in South Africa
📅 8 December 1946After India raised the treatment of people of Indian origin, the UN General Assembly declared that relations between the two countries should conform to international obligations and the UN Charter.
The UN adopts its first resolution on discrimination against Indians
📅 8 December 1946General Assembly resolution 44(I) called for the treatment of Indians in South Africa to conform to international obligations and the UN Charter. Indian diplomacy and South African campaigners...
India hosts new centre devoted to studying traditions
📅 25 Maart 2022The March announcement described an upcoming centre; its onsite launch was scheduled separately for April.
Traditional medicine centre includes sustainability
📅 25 Maart 2022Publication date: WHO linked future centre work to equity and sustainable use of knowledge and natural resources.
Jamnagar centre plans evidence and learning work
📅 25 Maart 2022Publication date: WHO named evidence and learning among the planned centre’s strategic areas.
WHO and India announce a traditional medicine centre
📅 25 Maart 2022Publication date: WHO announced an agreement to establish its Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar.
WHO traditional medicine centre breaks ground
📅 19 April 2022A ceremony in Jamnagar marked the start of a new WHO centre for traditional medicine.
Jamnagar hosts an international health initiative
📅 19 April 2022The centre aimed to support research and knowledge exchange on traditional medicine.
India’s healing traditions enter global discussion
📅 19 April 2022WHO cited Ayurveda and other systems while calling for evidence-based study.
Traditional knowledge raises research questions
📅 19 April 2022The groundbreaking was a commitment to study and policy development, not approval of every remedy.
First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit opens
📅 17 Augustus 2023Delegates met in Gandhinagar to discuss evidence, access and the future of traditional medicine.
Traditional knowledge meets public-health debate
📅 17 Augustus 2023The meeting asked how practices could be studied and integrated responsibly into health systems.
Ethiopian healing traditions enter the opening speech
📅 17 Augustus 2023WHO’s director-general referred to his experience of traditional practitioners in Ethiopia.
India hosts an international medicine summit
📅 17 Augustus 2023The Indian government and WHO convened practitioners, researchers and policymakers.
Indian-hosted summit links medicine and health policy
📅 18 Augustus 2023The WHO summit connected traditional medicine, research and public health at an international meeting hosted in India.
Global summit discusses the limits of existing evidence
📅 18 Augustus 2023Participants considered research and governance of traditional care; holding a summit did not validate every practice discussed.
Traditional medicine summit brings countries together
📅 18 Augustus 2023The closing date of the Gandhinagar meeting marks international discussion of evidence and health systems across diverse knowledge traditions.
First WHO traditional medicine summit concludes in India
📅 18 Augustus 2023The first WHO Global Traditional Medicine Summit concluded in Gandhinagar after its two-day meeting on 17–18 August 2023.
India pledges funding for WHO traditional medicine centre
📅 31 Juli 2024At a signing ceremony in Geneva, India committed US$85 million over ten years toward work at the WHO centre in Jamnagar.
Jamnagar centre plans work on Indigenous knowledge
📅 31 Juli 2024The WHO centre named Indigenous knowledges and biodiversity among its connected areas of work.
Traditional medicine centre plans research and evidence work
📅 31 Juli 2024The India-supported centre identified research and evidence as one of its core areas rather than assuming all inherited treatments work.
India and WHO connect traditional care with primary care
📅 31 Juli 2024The donor agreement supported centre work on primary health care, access and appropriate study of traditional knowledge.
Second WHO traditional medicine summit opens in India
📅 17 December 2025The three-day New Delhi summit opened on 17 December with a focus on evidence and health systems.
WHO summit discusses rights to medicinal biodiversity
📅 17 December 2025The opening announcement connected study of medicine with Indigenous rights and fair sharing of benefits.
New Delhi summit proposes common safety standards
📅 17 December 2025WHO called for scientific rigour, product quality and regulation in discussions of traditional practices.
Summit introduces a global health information agenda
📅 17 December 2025The announcement described plans for wider access to documented research on traditional medicine.