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    Convicts freed, hound victims. Victims in prison

    A research by Amnesty International points to survivors of gender-based violence being abandoned following Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and their husbands are on the...

    How COVID-19 has shattered a family’s dreams

    A Bangladeshi family's dreams of a good future life for their two young children is proving to be elusive as incomes come to a...

    Inequality doesn’t kill. Destitution kills.

    From the perspectives of developmental economics, economic equality is not the greatest of virtues; neither is economic inequality the worst of vices. By Anuj Kumar...

    New tea law brews dissent

    Trade unions are up in arms against the draft Tea (Development and Promotion) Bill, 2022 mooted by the ministry of commerce and industry to...

    The fall guys of Afghanistan’s Sharia legal system

    Former prosecutors are unemployed have to hide to save their families and themselves from the very criminals against whom they fought in the courts...

    A wee bit of seed money ushers in big time change

    From tending to a kitchen garden or rearing a cow, to making handicraft items or running a small village shop, some 800-plus women, all...

    Modi’s PMCARES and Gotabaya’s COVID–19 fund: Two similar kitties?

    Beginning with a lack of accountability, there are a number of interesting similarities between the Sri Lankan president's COVID–19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund...

    Afghanistan’s prime minister calls for international recognition for his government

    A massive job crisis that threatens to grow further, lack of food and medicines and frozen overseas assets prompted today's press conference. Afghanistan's acting prime...

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